Text/Yangcheng Evening Newspaper All-Media Reporter Huang Zhouhui
Photo/Provided by Cinema
On October 4, the national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary” will be officially premiered in the Opera Hall of the Guangzhou Grand Theater. The play is a key support program of the “China National Opera Inheritance and Development Project” and the “Historical Theme Creation Project” of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, telling the story of the ups and downs behind the overseas Chinese criticism. CinemaThe 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 Zhuhai Performing Arts Group and performed by Zhuhai Song and Dance Troupe. It was created and performed by the main creator of Babaylan and more than 200 cast and staff members in front and behind the scenes for two years.
Stills from the national opera “Overseas Commentary” Babaylan
Art presents the national spirit of historical themes
Overseas Commentary is a general term for letters and palindroms sent by overseas Chinese to their families through private channels and financial and postal institutions, and is a carrier of “convergence of letters” and is called letters across the sea. It once flourished in the coastal areas of Guangdong. The national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary” 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. On his deathbed, he started with a “blaming” from Liang Dong and Liang Caiyun who had to sell their daughter, his mother-in-law who had been sick for a long time, Tang Youxin and his wife, and many Chinese workers who were empathetic to Liang Chengru. They demonstrated the compatriots who were unfair in the years of suffering and reflected the China. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaThe nation is rooted in the bone marrowCinemaThe nation is rooted in the bone marrowKomiks, the great love flowing in blood. Stills from the national opera “Overseas Commentary”
How to visualize a piece of Overseas Commentary and present it artistically and humanly on the stage is a proposition for the creation of Cinema opera. Wang Yong, the screenwriter of the play, said: “A copy is the starting point of the story and the fulcrum of the story. The fulcrum of Babaylan‘ links the past and present lives of the Chinese nation. Only by expressing human nature and 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 Appeal” is no longer an exhibition in the museum’s window, history is no longer a cold text and pictures, and the 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 Criticism” gathered top artists in the industry – the consultant of the Komiks Association, former head of the China Railway Art Troupe, and first-class composer Meng Weidong as the composer, Vice Chairman of the China Drama Association, President of the National Peking Opera Theater, and First-class screenwriter Wang Yong as the screenwriter, former vice president of the Central Academy of Drama and doctoral supervisor Liao Xianghong, former vice president of the National Grand Theater and former vice president of the Beijing Dance Academy Deng Yijiang as the screenwriter Director of Cinema, Zhu Man, permanent conductor of the Central Opera House, postdoctoral fellow of the Central Conservatory of Music, and young conductor of the young conductor of the orchestra and chorus of the chorus of Cinema, was also invited to help with artists such as Zhou Zhengping, famous stage lighting designer Ding Ding, and well-known fashion designer Cui Xiaodong. The young singers Lu Wei, Li Yang, Dong Bin and 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 performance. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksArt Group decided to start the creation of the national opera “Overseas Chinese Comment”.In July 2019, Zhuhai Performing Arts Group organized a creative team to go to Zhuhai Tangjia, Jiangmen and other places to collect folk songs. When visiting the Wuyi Overseas Chinese Museum in Jiangmen, the early Chinese workers traveled across the ocean on fire boats, the miserable scenes that Chinese workers could not bear to witness, and the dangerous and unpredictable situations of the vast Pacific Ocean 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, revised them several times, and revised them repeatedly; the composer Meng Weidong closely followed the plot and integrated music and lyrics; director Liao Xianghong firmly grasped the characteristics and advantages of national opera, and vividly presented the righteousness and love of the characters in the play.
Re-polishing makes the play more Guangdong-style
The national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary” sets up characters and structures the entire play with a letter and a letter. “Overseas Chinese Commentary” and “The Sea” have different symbolic meanings. “Overseas Chinese comments” are letters from home, letters from silver, links connecting hometowns with thousands of miles apart, and symbols of commitment and faith. A “Overseas Chinese Comment” signed by a hundred people is a transmission of love for overseas Chinese, showing the suffering, homesickness and family and country feelings of Chinese workers. Their good deeds and righteous deeds are also important manifestations of the Chinese nation’s credibility and commitments; the sea is the road of life and a barrier, and Babaylan is a symbol of fate that is difficult to control in life.
In terms of music style, the play is based on deep, atmospheric, heavy and lyrical as its overall music style, with very distinctive musical characteristics and themes – using Guangdong music as the tone, it has strong Lingnan music characteristics. The smooth and emotional melody expresses the emotions of the characters and exaggerates the emotions of the characters; the various singing forms such as Babaylan are structured by various singing forms, enhancing the action and drama of the characters; the orchestration uses a variety of national instruments to fully demonstrate the charm of Chinese traditional culture.
Stills from the national opera “Qiqian Commentary”
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 scene setting of virtual and real, and the interlacing of physics and psychological time and space Cinema externalizes and poetically the inner world of the characters, bringing stronger inner impact to the audience.
It is reported that the national opera “Qiqian Criticism” is the first opera work created by Zhuhai Performing Arts Group in just two and a half years. It was held on July 3rd.After the audition of Zhuhai Grand Theater, it took another 3 months to polish it again. The premiere of the drama in Guangzhou has strengthened local characteristics in stage design and multimedia design, highlighting Guangdong elements, and the plot setting emphasizes the contradiction between the inner conflicts of the characters and the relationship between the characters, and is also more concise and improved in the main topic.