【Hot spot observation】
Youth is the future of business.
Only when young literary and art workers become strong can our literary and art cause form a vivid situation in which the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead.
For a period of time, young opera workers have emerged on various stages, provoked a leading role, and presented a gratifying situation of newcomers coming out in large numbers.
From the theater rehearsal field to the theater stage, from the opera party to the variety show, from the online live broadcast room to the short video platform, more and more opera newcomers have won respect and love with their wonderful performances and diverse expressions.
May 4th is a festival for young people. The changes of opera youth deserve attention, and their growth deserves applause.
In the theater, the performance is wonderful
At the beginning of March this year, the National Peking Opera Company launched the "Hundred Days Training" and "There is a Drama" series of performances by outstanding young actors. Improve the professional skills and comprehensive quality of actors and staff.
Since March, the National Peking Opera Company has been practicing the exercises in the rehearsal field and rehearsing is in full swing, while the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater stage has continuously staged wonderful dramas.
In March, in the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater, there was a performance by outstanding young people from the National Peking Opera Company. The small theater staged 24 classic plays in 8 days, such as "Da Jiao Zan", "Li Kui's Visiting Mother", "Wujiapo" and "Lin Chong Night Run" "Farewell My Concubine", "Xun Guanniang" and other great dramas are constantly exciting, and a group of outstanding young actors such as Wu Tong, Cai Jingchao, Laodan Tan Xiaoling, Laosheng Li Bo, Tsing Yi Cha Sina have appeared one after another; Jizhou · Earning Licheng" ignited the enthusiasm of the audience, and Huadan Li Chen, Wusheng Wang Yuzhou and other skills shocked four.
At the scene, the young actors performed well-mannered, and the audience applauded and applauded; after the performance, a group of old artists walked into the backstage and complimented the young actors.
The tradition of opera has received widespread attention.
A few years ago, some opera genres faced the risk of extinction, and important genres such as Peking Opera, Henan Opera, and Kunqu Opera also faced a shortage of talents and difficulty in producing high-quality operas.
The "Hundred Days Training" and "There are Operas Here" series of performances by outstanding young actors will focus on the inheritance of opera and talent training, through the whole process of "rehearsal to actual combat", "internal training to external review", through practice, rehearsal and performance, Inherit and develop the artistic style of the theater, retain the essence of art, and pass on the old to the new through oral teaching.
Such activities fully mobilize all kinds of high-quality resources, do not waste effort due to the epidemic, do not delay careers due to the environment, and build a "fast track" for the growth of young talents through systematic, planned, and large-scale linkages. meritorious deeds.”
The key to the prosperity and development of the Chinese opera industry lies in people.
This idea has become a general consensus in the opera world.
In the past two years, there have been more and more dramas starring young actors in the opera industry.
Whether it is the grand stage of opera represented by the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater, or the grand stage of sending opera to the countryside and sending joy to the grassroots, the Peking Opera Youth Troupe, Henan Opera Youth Troupe, Chu Opera Youth Troupe, Yue Opera Youth Troupe and other youth opera forces Growing stronger day by day, it takes its place in the applause of the audience.
In the program, big plays are staged one after another
In recent years, due to the impact of the epidemic, offline performances and sending operas to the countryside have decreased, but the stage and TV programs related to operas are still brilliant.
In addition to famous performers, young opera artists are also constantly presenting amazing performances.
At the Spring Festival Gala of China Central Radio and Television in 2022, in the opera festival "Endless Pear Garden Love", the actors spanned from the post-30s to the post-10s. There were both 80-year-old artists and 7-year-old artists on the stage. The little cute children of opera, and more are the young and middle-aged actors in their proper years, who have been on the same stage for several generations, vividly interpreting the inheritance and development of Chinese opera.
For the majority of drama fans, the Lantern Festival Opera Gala held by CCTV and local satellite TV every year can be called a feast of drama, which can always be a feast for the eyes and surprises.
The opera stage represented by the CCTV Lantern Festival Gala is not only a collection of famous artists, but also youthful power, dedicated to the audience in front of the TV with wonderful performances one after another.
And this year's Shandong Lantern Festival Opera Gala directly staged a passionate youth party, and the lineup was basically all young actors.
At the party, there were not only the presentation of classic opera, but also the integration of opera and national style and national trend. It also tried the collision and combination of opera and "two-dimensional" through technology empowerment, allowing the opera stage to shuttle in cultural scenic spots such as Mount Tai, Yellow River, and museums. The brand new stage presented by a group of outstanding young actors was generally welcomed.
At the time when the opera parties in various places are competing for their talents, a large number of opera brand programs such as "CCTV Air Theater", "Pear Garden Spring", "Into the Big Stage" and "Booming Blockbuster" are constantly innovating, and a hundred flowers are blooming.
Many programs directly focus on young opera workers.
For example, "The Opera Youth Talk" broadcast by CCTV focuses on the thoughts and thoughts of opera youth, and promotes new talents and presents new works through speeches, performances and round-table dialogues.
In the program, wonderful repertoires of Peking Opera, Henan Opera, Yue Opera, Huagu Opera, Cantonese Opera and other operas were staged one by one, including classic dramas such as "Suo Lin Sac", "Seven-pin Sesame Official", "Five Women's Birthday Prayer" and "Chisang Town". There are also modern dramas with distinctive characteristics of the times, such as "Daughter of Dunhuang", "The Husband and Wife Whistle", "Gobi Mother" and "The Gu Family Event".
The youth of opera not only presented wonderful performances for the majority of opera fans, but also shared the stories behind the creation and performance of operas and the original aspirations of young opera workers through speeches.
In addition, columns such as "Youth Drama Garden" push the new stars of Liyuan with bold and innovative styles, and inherit the classical and heavy opera culture and art in the form of youth and fashion, fully showing the youthful demeanor and refreshing.
On the Internet, Peking Opera Girl Troupe goes out of circle
Last year, five post-00 girls from the Peking Opera major of the Shanghai Theater Academy became popular on the Internet, and were called "Shangxi 416 Girls Group" by netizens.
They popularized the knowledge of Peking Opera such as classic arias, opera tunes, and fancy dress through short videos, and also used Peking Opera opera tunes to cover ancient songs.
The "breaking circle" of the Peking Opera Women's Troupe not only shows the lasting charm of ancient art, but also shows the fruitful thinking and actions of the new youth in inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
The extensive and profound art of opera is the treasure of Chinese culture, the cultural gene and genetic code of the Chinese nation, and the vivid expression of the freehand aesthetics of traditional culture and art, and has a broad mass base.
However, with the emergence of various new art forms, the art of opera has been impacted to a certain extent, and voices worrying about the decline or even demise of opera are often seen on the Internet.
In fact, a large number of new opera youths have always maintained an optimistic spirit because of their love, actively explored inheritance methods, and opened up a field of opera in the cyberspace.
At the beginning of this year, a game released the opera music video "Goddess Splitting Views and Emotions". After the video went online, it attracted widespread attention from young netizens and triggered a second wave of creation. Many famous opera artists punched in and performed, and soon appeared on the Internet. Cantonese Opera, Huai Opera, Qin Opera, Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Huangmei Opera and other versions.
Opera short videos account for a large proportion of traditional cultural short videos, and they have a large number of loyal fans on video websites and short video platforms where young people gather.
Classical arias, popular opera knowledge, and teaching short videos are all common types.
And these short videos also played a role in moisturizing things silently.
Not long ago, a video of a two-year-old boy flipping his water sleeves in a similar fashion was on the trending search, arousing onlookers on the Internet.
According to reports, the boy does not like toys or cars, but likes to watch operas and sing operas, and often learns from videos at home.
Short videos of opera have sown the seeds in the hearts of many children, taking them into opera, loving opera, and even learning opera and determined to engage in opera work.
The daily life of the little boy learning opera is recorded by short videos, and the wide dissemination will inspire a large number of people to discover the beauty of opera and take the initiative to learn about it.
According to relevant data, by the end of 2020, there were 180 million minor netizens between the ages of 6 and 18 in China, and the Internet penetration rate for minors reached 94.9%. senses".
Opera youth actively explore the dissemination of opera on the Internet. In essence, they are also disseminating traditional culture, promoting positive energy, displaying new trends, and making positive contributions to jointly creating a clear and bright cyberspace.
With the rapid popularization of the Internet, there is bound to be a bright future for opera youth in cyberspace.
(Author: Yang Xue, Liao Dan, Lecturer at the School of Art, Heilongjiang University, Associate Professor, School of Art, Heilongjiang University)