China News Service, Fuzhou, February 12 (Reporter Lin Chunyin) "In the past few years, we have been working hard to promote Fujian Opera's 'out of the circle' and put Fujian Opera IP characters on the 'brightest stage'." Speaking of the inheritance and innovation of Fujian Opera, Fujian Opera Zhou Hong, director of the Provincial Experimental Fujian Theater, winner of the Wenhua Performance Award of the Chinese Culture and Art Government Award, and winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, was deeply touched.
In 2018, Zhou Hong took Fujian opera actors to "Have a Lantern Festival" on CCTV.
Photo by Yang Fan
The national intangible cultural heritage of Fujian Opera, also known as Fuzhou Opera, originated in the late Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 400 years.
During the Spring Festival this year, under the guidance of the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the Fujian Provincial Experimental Fujian Theater, "Blessed in the Year of the Tiger, has a good show on stage", not only undertook the "Street Art Fujian·Fujian Rhythm" of "Welcome to the Spring Festival" ”, at the Shuixie Theater, Guanglu Yintai and Yeshan Park in Fuzhou’s Three Lanes and Seven Alleys, performing excerpts and operas of Fujian Opera, and performing online performances to congratulate the folks at home and abroad for the New Year with ancient singing.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, in the "Night of the Year" party broadcast on the CCTV Opera Channel's "Blockbuster" column, Zhou Hong starred in the excerpt of the Fujian opera "Shuangjiao Princess", greeting fans and friends at home and abroad for the New Year.
This is the 12th time that Fujian Opera has shown the charm of Fujian on the CCTV stage in 8 years.
A recent photo of Zhou Hong, director of the Fujian Provincial Experimental Fujian Theatre, winner of the Wenhua Performance Award of the Chinese Culture and Art Government Award, and winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award.
Photo by Yang Fan
In 2011, Zhou Hong has been thinking about how to make Fujian opera "out of the circle" since Lin Ying, a teacher and a master of Fujian opera, took over the role of the head of the Fujian Provincial Experimental Fujian Theater.
Zhou Hong told a reporter from China News Agency that Fujian opera is very popular in the Fuzhou language area, and overseas folks returning home often invite Fujian opera troupes to stage a series of good plays in their hometown.
"I hope to be able to stand on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, National Day and other parties. The stage is bigger and more people can see it."
The meticulously polished "Brother Yishun Said in the Year of the Sheep" appeared in the 2015 CCTV Spring Festival Opera Gala.
The "Brother Yishun" familiar to people in Fuzhou appeared in the classic image of wearing a robe, a jacket and a portable oil-paper umbrella. The 71-year-old old actor Zhu Shangen, a shrewd small businessman, "beat the abacus", but unfortunately the single brother did not marry Wife, "It's embarrassing to be busy at the end of the year", and the humorous opening will make people laugh.
"Brother Yishun is an authentic Fuzhou native with the most 'shrimp oil smell', the most cordial and the most representative of 'nostalgia'." Zhou Hong said with a smile, this is the first time that Fujian Opera has paid New Year's greetings at home and abroad through CCTV. Brother Yishun and 14 A Hokkien opera actor danced the "piggyback dance", making the three-minute performance more humorous.
Zhou Hong leads the actors of Fujian Opera to perform "Seven Rolls Eight Rolls Fifteen" on CCTV Photo by Yang Fan
Since then, Fujian Opera has been on the stage of CCTV's important opera evenings in successive years.
Hokkien opera songs "Seven Rolls Eight Rolls Fifteen" and "Yuanxi Raising Fangxiang" are mixed with Fuzhou regional slang and customs. In the lively and festive "sweet potato flavor", you can also see the lively and lively daily life of Fuzhou ancient houses.
In the 2020 New Year's Opera Gala, Zhou Hong sang the excerpt from "Double Butterfly Fan" "Remembering Double Butterflies".
Photo by Yang Fan
In recent years, the appearance of Fujian opera on CCTV has paid more and more attention to the ontology and can be freely retracted.
In addition to "Shuangjiao Princess", the Fujian drama "Double Butterfly Fan", which is regarded by the industry as the most Confucian opera style, also performed the excerpt "Remembering the Double Butterfly" in the 2020 New Year's Opera Gala, the highest stage of the National Opera Festival.
In the play "Double Butterfly Fan", Zhou Hong plays the protagonist Lin Mengqing. The performance not only has the style of a dignified and self-sufficient boudoir, but also has the character's own character, rich and delicate.
With this play, she won the Wenhua Performance Award of the Chinese Culture and Art Government Award, and she also devoted herself to the promotion of new actors, and has brought out 12 "Lin Mengqing".
Zhou Hong and 6 "Lin Mengqing" (the heroine in "Double Butterfly Fan") performed on the same stage.
Photo by Yang Fan
In 2021, the Fujian Provincial Experimental Fujian Theater will launch a new version of the Fujian opera "Litchi for Red Peach", which has been performed by generations of Fujian operas for more than half a century. Actors have formed multiple sets of performance lineups, interpreting ancient love stories with youthful breath, becoming a typical example of opera reform returning to the original and opening a new one.
"Fujian Opera needs a new generation of old operas, and it will be passed down from generation to generation." Zhou Hong, who has been in the art for more than 30 years, has created more than 30 vivid artistic images on the stage of Fujian Opera.
She hopes to inspire the talents of young opera actors, make many Hokkien opera flowers bloom, and "connect the nostalgia of home and abroad with the 'scent of shrimp oil'".
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