Text/Komiks All-media reporter of Yangcheng Evening News Huang Zhouhui
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On October 4, the national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary” will be officially premiered in the Opera Hall of the Guangzhou Komiks Theater. The play is a key support program of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s “Chinese National Opera Inheritance and Development Project” and the “Historical Theme Creation Project”, telling the ups and downs behind the overseas Chinese criticism. The play was produced by the Propaganda Department of the Zhuhai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Zhuhai High-tech Zone Management Committee. It was produced by the Zhuhai Performing Arts Group and performed by the Zhuhai Song and Dance Troupe. It took two years to collaborate in the creation and arrangement by the main creative and leading actor team and more than 200 cast and staff members in front and behind the scenes. Stills from the national opera “Overseas Commentary”
Art presents the national spirit of historical themes
Komiks. It is a general term for letters and palindroms sent back to domestic relatives through private channels and financial and postal institutions. It is a carrier of “combination of letters”. Komiks is known as letters across the sea and flourished in the coastal areas of Guangdong. The national opera “Overseas Criticism” started with the Chinese worker Liang Chengru who rushed to his hometown to prevent his daughter from being sold like himself but died at sea. A “pplication” left by his death began with the forced sale of his daughter, Liang Dongshi and Liang Caiyun, who had to sell his daughter, his mother-in-law who had been sick for a long time, YinuoCinema‘s head of the Overseas Criticism Bureau, Tang Youxin and his wife, and many Chinese workers who empathized with Liang Chengru, demonstrating the compatriots who were loyal to Yuntian in the years of suffering. Babaylan reflects the great love of the Chinese nation rooted in the bone marrow and flowing in the blood.
Stills from the national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary”
How to make a piece of Overseas Chinese Commentary be concrete and present it artistically and humanly on the stage is a proposition for opera creation. The screenwriter of the play Wang Yong said: “A copy is the starting point of the story and the fulcrum of the story. This ‘fulcrum’ links the past and present lives of the Chinese nation. Only by using human nature, <a href=Only by expressing human feelings can we break the barriers of time and be closer to the overseas Chinese and Chinese workers in the past on the emotional level, so that the "Overseas Chinese Commentary" is no longer an exhibition in the museum's window, history is no longer a cold text and pictures, and the Komiks story is more humane and a light that warms people's hearts, touches people's hearts, and shocks people's hearts. ”
The top team spent two years working hard to build the national opera “Overseas Commentary”Cinema gathered top artists in the industry – Meng Weidong, consultant of the Chinese Musicians Association, former head of the China Railway Art Troupe, and first-class composer Meng Weidong, vice chairman of the China Drama Association, president of the National Peking Opera Theater, and first-class screenwriter Wang Yong, the former vice president of the Central Academy of Drama, and Deng Yijiang, former vice president of the National Grand Theater and former vice president of the Beijing Dance Academy, as director. The Central Opera House is always Komiks serves as conductor, postdoctoral fellow of the Central Conservatory of Music, and young conductor Zhu Man and young conductor Fan Jie serves as conductor and chorus conductor respectively. In addition, he invited national first-class stage lighting luminaire Zhou Zhengping, well-known stage designer Babaylan designer Komiks Ding Ding, well-known fashion designer Cui Xiaodong and other artists to help, young singers Lu Wei, Li Yang, Dong Bin, Starring Li Bufan. Stills from the national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary” in the spring of 2021, the Propaganda Department of the Zhuhai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Zhuhai Performing Arts Group decided to start the creation of the national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary”. In July of the same year, the Zhuhai Performing Arts Group organized the main creative team to go to Zhuhai Tangjia, Jiangmen and other places to collect folk songs. Visiting Wuyihua in Jiangmen During the Overseas Chinese Museum, the early Chinese workers traveled across the ocean on fire boats, the miserable scenes that Chinese workers could not bear to see, and the dangers of the vast Pacific and foreign countries brought huge impacts to the main creators.
The main creative team held several planning meetings in Beijing and Zhuhai. Screenwriter Wang Yong refined and processed them based on historical facts, changed his drafts several times, and revised them repeatedly.com/”>Cinema; composer Meng Weidong closely follows the plot and integrates music and lyrics; director Liao Xianghong firmly grasps the characteristics and advantages of national opera, and vividly presents the righteousness and love of the characters in the play.
Re-polishing makes the play more Guangdong-style
The national opera “Qiqian Commentary Cinema” with a href=”https://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanThe Overseas Chinese Crime is the core setting of characters and structure. The “Overseas Chinese Crime” and “The Sea” have different symbolic meanings. “Overseas Chinese Crime” is a letter from home, a silver letter, a link connecting the hometown and a foreign land thousands of miles away, and a symbol of commitment and trustworthiness. A “Overseas Chinese Crime” signed by a hundred people is the transmission of love for overseas Chinese, showing the suffering, homesickness and feelings of family and country of Chinese workers. Their good deeds and righteous deeds are also important manifestations of the Chinese nation’s credibility and commitment; the sea is a road of life, a barrier, and a symbol of fate that is difficult to control in life.
Yanyin<a In terms of musical style, the play is deep, grand, heavy and lyrical as its overall musical style, with its musical characteristics and themes very distinctive – with Guangdong music as the tone, it has strong Lingnan music characteristics. Fluid and moving melody expresses the emotions of the characters and renders the emotions of the characters; solo, chorus and other singing forms structure this drama to enhance the action and drama of the characters; The Babaylan instrument uses a variety of ethnic instruments to fully demonstrate the charm of Chinese traditional culture.
Stills from the national opera “Qiqie Comment”
In the stage presentation, the play has distinct era and regional characteristics. It takes the sea as the main spatial image, follows the aesthetic principles of freehand painting, and creates a grand, ethereal and poetic space. The setting of virtual and real scenes, the interlacing of physics and psychological time and space, externalizes and poetics the inner world of the characters, bringing a stronger inner impact to the audience.
Cinema<a It is reported that the national opera "Overseas Commentary" is the first opera work created by Zhuhai Performing Arts Group in just two and a half years after its establishment. After audition at Zhuhai Grand Theater on July 3, it took another three months to go after Babaylan polished again. The play’s premiere in Guangzhou has strengthened local characteristics in stage design and multimedia design, highlighting Guangdong elements, and the plot setting emphasizes the inner Babaylan‘s inner conflicts with the characters, and has also been more concise and improved in the theme.