Famous drama teachers on both sides of the strait recall their "firsts"

　　On August 24th, the event "Dialogue between Famous Drama Teachers Across the Taiwan Strait" was held online.

This event is centered on the theme of "telling Chinese stories and gathering drama on both sides of the strait". It is sponsored by Beijing Radio and Television Station, Beijing Performing Arts Group, and Want Want Group. It selects operas, dramas and other theatrical art forms that have rich performing arts resources and a good audience base on both sides of the strait. , invites famous drama teachers from both sides of the strait to exchange the development status of drama on both sides of the strait through online and offline dialogues, live performances, etc.

　　Video connection of famous drama teachers on both sides of the strait

　　The event will be set up in Beijing Radio and Television Station and Taiwan Contemporary Legend Theater, and will be held simultaneously through video connection.

Over the past 35 years, the exchanges between drama people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have never stopped.

This "Cross-Strait Drama Teacher Dialogue" invited a number of drama teachers who have participated in the cross-strait drama exchange for 30 years to tell the experiences and feelings of the cross-strait drama inheritance and development and exchange and mutual learning.

　　Beijing opera, Kunqu Opera, Pingju, Hebei Bangzi and Beijing Opera artists from five genres, including Peking Opera master Hu Wenge, Kunqu Opera master Wei Chunrong, Pingju master Sun Luyang, Hebei Bangzi master Wang Yinghui, Beijing Opera master Xu Di, and Beijing People's Art Theatre Deputy Academy Chang Feng Yuanzheng, Beijing Arts Director Tang Ye and others.

The Taiwan Dialogue was set up in the contemporary Legend Theatre of the famous actor Wu Xingguo, which brought together Taiwanese Peking Opera performers and the first disciple of Mr. Mei Baojiu Wei Haimin and Taiwanese actor, playwright, director and founder of the Contemporary Legend Theatre Wu Xingguo and others.

　　"There are a lot of Pingju audiences in Taiwan"

　　Xu Di brought the instruction manual of the Beijing Qu Opera Troupe when they performed in Taiwan in 1997, "At that time we performed "Smoke Pot" and "Yang Naiwu and Little Cabbage". I found that Taiwanese audiences are too good at appreciating art.”

　　In 2001, the Beijing Qu Opera Troupe brought three plays, "Four Generations Together", "Longxugou" and "Tea House" to Taiwan. Xu Di played Yunmei, Cheng Niangzi and Kang Shunzi respectively in the play. During the Spring Festival, Taiwan made me feel the same festive atmosphere as Beijing, and I was quite emotional about the same root and the same origin on both sides of the strait."

　　Sun Luyang went to Taiwan for the first time in 2000. At that time, the China Pingju Opera performed 13 major operas and one excerpt. "There is no Pingju troupe in Taiwan, but there are many audiences of Pingju. The audience understands the opera very well, and they applaud very elegantly."

　　Feng Yuanzheng once went to Taiwan to perform "Tea House"

　　Wei Haimin, Mei Baojiu's eldest disciple, saw Teacher Baojiu's performance in Hong Kong in 1982, and was impressed, "But since then, there has been no chance to meet each other until the teacher came to Hong Kong in 1988 and decided to accept me as a disciple after listening to my singing. . That time we had been chatting after the apprenticeship banquet, and I mentioned that several points in the sword dance in "Farewell My Concubine" were unclear, and he picked up his chopsticks and danced the sword for me on the spot."

　　Wu Xingguo's "Sex and the City" once caused a great sensation in Beijing. Diao Li, who worked with him on the same stage, said: "The Contemporary Legend Theatre dropped a bomb on the National Peking Opera Theatre. After that, I worked with Mr. Ma Lianliang again. My youngest son has learned the old-fashioned drama of the three-man school."

　　Feng Yuanzheng went to Taiwan to perform with Renyi's "Tea House" in 2004. "From walking the stage to rehearsal, you can feel the friendliness. The theater was full during the performance, and the curtain call time was longer than the performance in Beijing. For the Beijing flavor and the local accent, the audience really It's been a long time."

　　At the scene, Wei Chunrong and Wen Yuhang also sang the aria of "The Liang Zhu", while Wei Haimin and Hu Wenge performed "Ode to Pear Blossoms" together.

　　Text / reporter Guo Jia