"Garden" and "opera" complement each other in brilliance

Original title: "Garden" and "Opera" complement each other (theme)

——The Fifth Chinese Opera Culture Week concluded successfully (subtitle)

< p> On October 7, with the end of the Beijing-Bangzhou double performance of "Red Mane Horse", the 7-day Fifth Chinese Opera Culture Week came to an end at the Beijing Garden Expo. During the National Day, 23 professional academies and many civil society groups in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei organized performances around the "Centennial Ode to Elegance", "Heroes' Love in Modern and Ancient Times", "Hua Cai Yun Beijing", "Kun Opera, Silk and Bamboo Chanting", "Old Intangible Cultural Heritage Stage" and " With themes such as "Heroes Emerge as Young People", the festival jointly presented more than 240 performances, 300 lectures, and 500 interactive activities, attracting 80,000 visitors. Among them, 14 performances and 13 celebrity lectures have accumulated more than 20 million views.

As a national opera carnival, the Chinese Opera Culture Week sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Beijing Municipal Government has become increasingly broad in coverage and influence, forming the "opera in the garden" and "the garden in the opera" The unique characteristics of intertwined situations.

A great show with famous troupes and famous opera performers taking turns to appear

This year’s Opera Week, famous troupes and famous opera performers from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei took turns to perform, gathering Wang Rongrong, Du Zhenjie, Famous artists such as Zhang Huifang, Liu Fengling, Wang Hongling, Zeng Zhaojuan, Wang Ping, Song Yan, Zhang Sigang, and Wang Runjing were enthusiastically welcomed by the audience. Many classic traditional plays as well as outstanding red-themed modern plays celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, including Peking opera "The Story of the Red Lantern" and "Detective II", Kunqu opera "The Romance of the West Chamber", "Flying to capture the Luding Bridge", Pingju opera "The Bank of the Jinsha River", "Liu Hulan", Hebei Bangzi The performances of major dramas such as "Monument to the People's Heroes", "New Bao Gong's Apology", Beijing opera "Longxugou" and "Smoke Pot" were warmly welcomed by the audience.

In the "Beijing Garden", 7 Beijing-based troupes presented a variety of classic short plays and excerpts, winning applause from the audience; in the "Recalling Jiangnan Garden", "The Peony Pavilion", "The Palace of Eternal Life" and "The Story of the Hosta" Famous passages from famous dramas, with melodious fairy sounds and graceful silk and bamboo. The combination of Kunqu opera and waterside customs makes tourists happy physically and mentally; the "Old Intangible Cultural Heritage Stage" in "Jinzhong Garden", the national intangible cultural heritage dramas Shijiazhuang Silk String, Baoding Old Tune and local characteristic dramas Tang Opera and Bangzi, etc., greatly entertained the audience Vision; In "Min Garden", the garden version of Peking Opera "Shu Shuo·Shajiabang" incorporates elements of storytelling, using the form of storytelling "cross-telling" to integrate the opera tune, the sound of books, architecture, flowing water, light and shadow, making the audience Refreshing.

People’s Stage Club Fans *** went to the carnival

This year’s Opera Culture Week, young audiences became the highlight. The fresh and unique platform of the Opera Week has become a stage for the majority of fans, especially young opera lovers, to compete in skills.

The fertile soil for opera art in the north has given birth to numerous folk opera societies. Located on Liyuan Avenue along the axis of the Garden Expo, ticket-operating opera fans from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei are lined up in the "Piao-operating Society Gathering" and "Common People's Stage" to perform, including Peking Opera, Kun Opera, Ping Opera, Yue Opera, Yu Opera, Huangmei Opera, Hebei Opera, etc. Operas such as bangzi and old tunes compete with each other and complement each other, allowing the audience to truly feel the scenic scenery of the Liyuan where "the scene changes with each step and there is drama everywhere". The "Winter Olympics Quyuan" stage uses folk art forms such as single-string chorus, Xihe drum, ox bone Shulaibao, storytelling, and plum blossom drum to perform Winter Olympics-related programs, demonstrating the mass power of opera art.

Tomorrow Theater's "Heroes Come Out of Youth" opera competition, many university and folk youth opera clubs have appeared, such as the China Youth Institute of Political Science Opera Club, Beijing Yuanxing Society Children's Peking Opera Troupe, Capital Normal University Peking Opera Troupe Young talents and teenagers, etc., with their love and persistence for the art of opera, presented many wonderful excerpts to the audience, which received bursts of applause, expressing their love and appreciation for the traditional culture of the motherland, and attracting young opera fans. Eager to try.

The finals of this year’s Chinese Opera Fans Competition are even more exciting and the competition is fierce. There are four opera types: Peking Opera, Ping Opera, Kun Opera, and Henan Opera, divided into two categories: adults and teenagers. The participants competed with each other with great enthusiasm, and the famous opera experts gave pertinent and thorough comments, which demonstrated the inheritance power of opera art.

The "opera +" model of opera art pursues fashion

With opera as the core, this year's opera week actively explores the "opera +" model, with "opera + installation" and "opera + "Games" and "opera + education" and other means, set up diversified and fashionable links such as interactive experience, task completion, check-in with prizes, and close-up performances to three-dimensionally display the connotation and charm of opera culture, attracting a large number of young people to "check-in" ".

The multiple "opera experience devices" on Ginkgo Avenue in the Garden Expo Park are ingeniously designed and beautiful in appearance. The audience is immersed in it, posing, showing off their figures, and showing off their martial arts. It has become a "check-in" place for many fashion-seeking tourists. The "Hero Summoning Order" prize-winning check-in game is scattered in 12 activity areas in the park, and "interactive" challenges with 12 ancient and modern opera heroes; the large-scale real-life garden opera game "Big Breaking the Heavenly Gate Array" in the Lingnan Garden, participants solved Solving the puzzles not only exercises physical and mental strength, but also increases the understanding of traditional opera culture.