Chinese opera blends into the rustic gardens to release charm
Not long ago, the home event of the 2020 (fourth) Chinese Opera Culture Week ended in Beijing Garden Expo.
36 professional and folk opera societies in Beijing provide 180 wonderful performances for tourists and audiences in 13 performance spaces, as well as opera ticket contests, digital experience exhibitions, academic events, and 5G live broadcasts.
The Chinese Opera Culture Week focuses on the combination of professionalism and mass, which highlights the feature.
Chinese operas and national gardens, which are common in aesthetics, have also been integrated.
The opera originally rooted in the market, with the help of the tree terraces, verandas and flowing water in the garden expo, removes the layers of packaging imposed on it by the modern theater, reconnects to the folk soil on the natural stage, and releases its charm with a simple appearance.
In view of the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the scale of this year's Xiqu Week has been reduced compared with previous ones, but the woven "drama in the garden" and "garden in the opera" scenes are still fascinating.
Among them, the three opera ecological parks built by the Northern Kunqu Opera Theater, the Chinese Criticism Theater, and the Beijing Peking Opera Theater are particularly impressive based on the garden structure characteristics of Yijiang South Park, Min Park, and Beijing Park.
"Love is in'Recalling the South of the Jiangnan'" Kunqu Opera theme performance, placing multiple excerpts from classic repertoires such as "The Peony Pavilion", "Eternal Life Palace", "The Story of the Jade Hairpin", and "The Story of the West Chamber" in 3 pavilions in the Yijiang South Garden , Forming three performance areas, in a mutually independent and interdependent manner, interpreting love stories of different ages.
As soon as they entered the garden, the audience followed the "book boy" to the garden to enjoy the play, hearing the delicate and lingering water-milling tunes, watching the garden scenery in the golden autumn season, and crossing to the south of the Yangtze River in a trance.
The garden version of the Ping opera "Flower as the Match" staged in Minyuan appropriately tailored the inverted plot of the crown and the Li Dai in the stage and the movie version, and merged the 6 classic clips that the audience would love to see into the 6 landscapes of Minyuan.
Under the guidance of the characters in the play such as Ruan Ma and Che Liuzi who are in charge of the scene, the audience and tourists are immersed for a long time in the atmosphere created by the plot and the garden environment.
For the art of Peking opera, this year coincides with the important birthday anniversary of monks Xiaoyun, Xun Huisheng, Zhang Junqiu and other Peking opera masters on the 230th anniversary of the "Huiban Entering Beijing".
To this end, the Beijing Peking Opera Theatre carried out genre performances in the Beijing Garden. At the same time, it launched a variety of interactive experience activities such as special exhibitions, master lectures, Beijing opera beginners, makeup experience, etc., leading tourists who watch and listen, learn and try, step by step Understand the art of Peking Opera.
The performance and functional activities complement each other. In addition to deepening the audience’s understanding of the art of opera, it also brings a series of dramas and time, technology, celebrities and fanciers, audiences, academics and media, the general public, tradition and present, future, etc." dialogue".
The main stage of the main performance by the Beijing Opera Troupe and Jinzhong Garden, one is the newly built Sunshine Theater, and the other is an old stage with a history of hundreds of years, which shows the taste of time dialogue.
The repeated appearances of famous opera masters and young actors in the new theater and the ancient stage allow the past and the present of opera culture to take care of the past and present, forming the effect of inheriting and developing the old and the new.
In response to this, the "Dream into the Liyuan" Opera Digital Experience Exhibition makes full use of digital technology to allow the audience to "listen" to the "exchange" between opera and technology and the future.
As a treasure of Chinese traditional culture, Xiqu has a new vitality that is different from the garden.
Meisheng