China News Service, Suzhou, September 15th (Reporter Zhong Sheng) As the Cantonese opera drama "The Legend of the White Snake: Love" ended online on the evening of the 14th, the main event of the 2022 Chinese Opera Baixi (Kunshan) Ceremony officially ended.
The Hundred Opera (Kunshan) Festival has been successfully held for three sessions in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, the birthplace of Kunqu Opera, the "Ancestor of Hundred Operas". The construction of opera genres and personnel training have provided an important platform and accumulated valuable experience.
This year's Hundred Opera Festival kicked off on August 13. In more than a month, the national opera leading talents outstanding repertoires, "the world's first troupe" youth performance talent training, "Watching Hundred Operas, Touring Jiangsu" theme Activities such as tours are carried out in turns.
Through opera + tourism, opera + fashion, opera + science and technology innovation, opera + industry, etc., activate the water at the source of opera, and write a new chapter in the development of opera in the new era.
In the excellent repertoire of national leading talents in opera performances, 54 leading talents in national opera performances performed a total of 18 grand operas and 23 excerpt operas online and offline, fully demonstrating the inheritance and development of traditional culture by the younger generation of opera talents.
The "No. 1 Troupe in the World" youth performing talent training conducted at the same time is the 2022 annual art talent training funding project of the National Art Fund.
Organizing the main actors of operas with only one state-run group in the country to come to Kunshan for training, adopting a combination of on-site teaching and performing practice, and increasing the training of young talents by means of famous family traditions, performances and observations, exchanges and seminars, etc. Some plays and opera cultures have been passed down from generation to generation, and the "sounds" are endless.
"The World's First Regiment" is practicing.
Photo courtesy of Kunshan Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism
And through the creative transformation and innovative development of opera art, the flow of opera culture can be deeply empowered to break the circle.
During this year's Hundred Opera Festival, Kunshan launched the "Water Rhythm Jiangsu Opera Tour" provincial linkage theme game activity. Gai Yong, a leading national opera performer, flashed Lv Opera on the ancient stage of Zhouzhuang, and used 5G holographic projection technology to make Kunshan on the main stage. The drama "Huan Sha Ji" simultaneously "traversed" to Dayuwan Square and other activities.
Let traditional opera come out of the stage, and hundreds of operas will shine in every possible way.
According to statistics, during this Hundred Opera Festival, more than 10,000 people watched the offline performances live; the online live broadcast (exhibition) was watched by more than 63 million times, of which the overseas live broadcast was watched by more than 70,000 times.
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