2024-01-19 02:16:00
Original title: The two-way journey between traditional classics and current audiences (Yihai Guanlan)
The Peony Pavilion, which has been handed down for more than 400 years, embodies the persistence of artists from generation to generation. It is like a beam of artistic light traveling through time and space, illuminating this two-way journey between traditional classics and contemporary audiences.
“How can you know how beautiful spring is without a garden!” Since 2023, the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe’s complete version of “The Peony Pavilion” has toured nearly 40 times domestically, and has appeared in Beijing, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and other places. Where a vote is hard to come by. The performance is not an excerpt or a series of twists and turns, but a complete version of 55 plays. Audiences came to the theater from all over the city for three consecutive days to savor the complete picture of the classic from more than 400 years ago. This is really touching and exciting today, when cultural products are extremely abundant and the pace of life is accelerating. In March 2023, the full version of “The Peony Pavilion” participated in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s “Exhibition of Excellent Plays in New Era Stage Arts” and was broadcast simultaneously on more than 50 online platforms, with more than 13 million online viewers.
Kun Opera, as one of the first traditional operas to be included in UNESCO’s “Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” list, carries the genes and blood of Chinese culture. “The Peony Pavilion” is a shining pearl in the crown of Kunqu Opera. The author Tang Xianzu once said: “I have four dreams in my life, and the only place I am proud of is “The Peony.”” “The Peony Pavilion” is famous for its profound ideological connotation and aesthetic connotation. Most of the legends of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are melodramas, which emphasize “one person, one thing” and “establishing the mastermind”. “The Peony Pavilion” uses three relatively independent sets of plot paragraphs as the main body, and the conflict between emotion and reason runs throughout, forming a twists and turns and exciting fold. formula structure.
Compared with other classical works such as “The Romance of the West Chamber” and “The Peacock Flies Southeast”, the complete version of “The Peony Pavilion” not only tells a touching love story, but is also a classic that showcases ancient social culture and opera aesthetics. Against the rich historical and cultural background, Du Liniang traveled through life and death to realize the pursuit of ideal personality and the pursuit of the meaning of life. Today, more than 400 years later, it is still deeply inspiring. How to integrate the charm of the times on the basis of inheriting traditional classics, so that the audience can have a deeper understanding of the ideological connotation and artistic charm of the original work? The whole book “The Peony Pavilion” makes a useful attempt.
Different from various versions of “The Peony Pavilion” such as Youth Edition, Essence Edition, and Collector’s Edition, the 55-part version of “The Peony Pavilion” has a substantial discount, retaining the rich connotation of the original work, fully displaying the characters, and insisting on complete lyrics and music, and elegant diction. , profound artistic conception. The full version of “The Peony Pavilion” presents 47 of Tang Xianzu’s original 69 Tang poems, totaling 182 lines, through the characters in the play. It not only achieves the artistic effect of poetry and meaning, but also serves as a link between the past and the future, and as the finishing touch. In addition to subtitles such as “Dream” and “Dream Search” that show the main line of love, the whole drama also fully achieves the alternation of hot and cold drama scenes and the complementarity of dynamic and static scenes. Among them, there are 19 scenes involving noisy and heated scenes, such as “Terror”, “Poison” and other passages that reflect the personalities of Chen Zuiliang and Shi Daogu, with distinctive characteristics and making people laugh; the martial arts scenes “Huai Police”, “Yu Huai” and “Zhao Bandits” “” Wai Shi” and so on, swords and guns are used simultaneously, gongs and drums are noisy; folk scenes such as “Encouraging Farmers” bring the elegance of water mills closer to the fireworks of the market.
In terms of expression form and stage presentation, the entire version of “The Peony Pavilion” combines history and culture to fully integrate poetic realm and beautiful scenes, especially the use of the large turntable to smoothly realize complex scene changes and scene changes, speed up the narrative rhythm, and create a It brings out the poetic artistic conception of traditional Kun Opera. The singing music is compiled and adapted based on the “Na Shu Ying Music Score” written in the 57th year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty. On the basis of following the traditional Kun Opera art, the original rhythm is slow, the singing style is soft and smooth but not strong enough, and strives to Achieve beautiful melody, clear sentence reading, realize the organic unity of melody and word meaning, and meet the current audience’s aesthetic needs. More than a hundred sets of exquisite costumes were produced for the whole play, and each costume of the leading actor was hand-embroidered, showing the exquisite elegance of Kun Opera art and making it unforgettable.
The success of the complete version of “The Peony Pavilion” reflects the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe’s more than 40 years of profound accumulation and the inheritance spirit of “five troupes and three generations”. The performance lineup all uses young actors, and veteran artists serve as the main creative team behind the scenes and teach everyone. In 2023, the leading actors Luo Chenxue and Hu Weilu won the 31st Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and the 31st Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performing Arts Award for the Protagonist Award respectively, demonstrating the solid results of inheritance, innovation and talent cultivation. Classics meet the times, antiquity and youth symphony, and traditional culture is full of vitality in the new era.
The most beloved Peony Pavilion in the world is a dream shared through the ages. At the end of the play, the two leading actors joined hands to bow to “Tang Xianzu” on the stage, which moved the audience. The Peony Pavilion, which has been handed down for more than 400 years, embodies the persistence of artists from generation to generation. It is like a beam of artistic light traveling through time and space, illuminating this two-way journey between traditional classics and contemporary audiences. (Yu Xiating)
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