"Post-00s" meets traditional opera: a "new voice" comes out of the century-old Lake Opera

　　Chinanews.com, Huzhou, February 6th (Shi Zinan Wang Yibao) "When singing this sentence, you must look forward." "Here, you need to change your hands so that the movements are smoother and more coordinated."

　　On the morning of February 6, in the rehearsal hall on the second floor of the Huzhou City Cultural Center in Zhejiang Province, Zhou Bo, deputy director of the cultural center and director of the Huzhou Lake Opera Inheritance Center, and Fan Kuiying, a physique teacher, guided the actors to sing while adjusting and optimizing their movements.

　　On the "2023 Lantern Festival Gala" broadcast by China Central Radio and Television on the evening of February 5, the Lake drama "Sisters Watching Lanterns" made a wonderful appearance.

Watching the program broadcast smoothly in front of the TV, Zhou Bo couldn't hide his excitement.

Band members are rehearsing Photo by Wang Yibao

　　"At around 8 o'clock in the evening on January 4, I received a call from the director team of CCTV's Lantern Festival, inviting Lake Opera to participate in the preliminary selection of the Lantern Festival performance." Zhou Bo still remembers the surprise and nervousness when he received the call.

　　In order to make the Huzhou drama debut smoothly, Zhou Bo quickly started to revise the text, and worked non-stop with Qiu Gang, the deputy director of the Huzhou City Cultural Center, Chen Hao, a member of the band, and a series of work such as music production, recording, and rehearsal, and finally delivered the program The sample passed successfully and was selected.

　　Huzhou Opera, formerly known as "Huzhou Tanhuang", is a representative local rap and singing Tanhuang opera in northern Zhejiang. It has a history of more than 180 years and was included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2011.

　　In 2001, in accordance with the reform requirements of the group system of the state-owned art academy, the professional theater troupe was withdrawn, and the Lake Opera gradually fell silent.

In recent years, Huzhou has taken a series of measures such as rescue records, the establishment of training classes for the Lake Opera Committee, and the establishment of the Lake Opera Inheritance Center, etc., to bring the Lake Opera back to the public's vision and radiate vitality.

　　Zhou Bo, who grew up in the theater, has a deep affection for opera.

In 2015, she became the leader of the Lake Drama Innovation Team.

In her eyes, once she decides to do something, she must do her best to do it best.

In order for Lake Opera to bloom at the Lantern Festival Gala, she and her team have devoted a lot of effort.

　　"In fact, when we were rehearsing and recording in Beijing, the stage was a lifting platform, which was different from the usual stage. It was necessary to readjust and optimize the actors' movements. It took countless rehearsals to perfect the performance. It was really not easy." Zhou Bo said. .

The physique teacher is adjusting the actor's movements and demeanor Photo by Wang Yibao

　　"But it is worthwhile to let audiences across the country feel the unique charm of Lake Opera." Zhou Bo's words are also the common aspiration of the team.

　　One minute on stage, ten years off stage.

The wonderful appearance on the stage also comes from the hard training day after day off the stage.

　　The young Hu opera actors Shen Jiale and Chen Xingying who starred in "Sisters Watching the Lantern" are both "post-00s" girls. From the vocals to the careful deliberation of the movements.

　　"As a newcomer, when I learned that I was going to perform on CCTV, my first reaction was excitement, followed by nervousness and anxiety." Shen Jiale said that in order to better present the work on stage, the two kept fine-tuning their singing and libretto , to make it more prominent in the characteristics of Lake Opera, and to enhance the stage performance by watching the performance videos of famous opera masters.

　　Chen Xingying recalled that when she first entered school, she often practiced exercises so that her body was bruised and bruised, and the muscles in her legs were often stretched and swollen. The pain was so painful that she couldn't walk. The high-intensity basic training also made many students shed tears.

　　"The journey of learning art has been hard, but I have also gained a lot. The mastery of skills does not happen overnight, it needs to be honed over time. In the future, I hope that I can take over the baton of Lake Opera inheritance and go further along the footsteps of my predecessors." Chen Xingying said.

　　The joining of a group of "post-00s" students such as Shen Jiale and Chen Xingying is bringing new life to Lake Opera.

After professional training, each of these young seedlings of Lake Opera can now independently complete an excerpt, and has begun to have the performance skills of Lake Opera.

　　"In the future, the team will continue to take the responsibility of inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and release high-quality new works while restoring traditional and excellent dramas, and continue to promote Lake dramas to the whole country." Zhou Bo and her team believe that "these '00s' Young actors are the 'stars' of the future." (End)