Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Huang Zhouhui
Photo/Creative PerformanceKomiksOn the 4th of this month, 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 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 drama 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, produced by Zhuhai Performing Arts Group and performed by Zhuhai Songs and Dance Troupe. The main creative and leading actor team and more than 200 cast and staff members in front and behind the scenes worked together for two years to create and arrange. Stills from the national opera “Overseas Commentary”
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. It is a “Cinema” carrier of “Babaylan”. It is called a letter across the sea and flourished in the coastal areas of Guangdong. The national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary” started from the Chinese worker Liang Chengru to stop her daughter from being sold like herself, but died at sea. A “blam” left by her death began, linking up Liang Dongshi and Liang Caiyun, who had to sell her daughter, her mother-in-law who had to sell her daughter, Tang Youxin, and her wife, and many Chinese workers who had no choice but to sell her daughter. She showed her compatriots who had no choice but to sell her daughter for a long time, and reflected the Chinese. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksThe great love of the nation is rooted in the bone marrow and flows in the 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 opera creation. The screenwriter of the play, Wang YongKomiks said: “A copy is the starting point of the story and the fulcrum of the story. This ‘fulcrum’ connects the past and present life of the Chinese nation and the next life. Only by using human nature and expression of human feelings can we break the barriers of time and be closer to the overseas Chinese and Chinese workers in Komiks at that time, so that the “Overseas Chinese Appeal” is no longer an exhibition in the museum’s window, and history is no longer cold texts and pictures, making the story 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 Certificate” 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, as the composer, as the composer, and Wang Yong, vice chairman of the Chinese Drama Association, president of the National Peking Opera Theater, and first-class screenwriter Wang Yong, as the screenwriter, Liao Xianghong, former vice president of the Central Academy of Drama and doctoral supervisor, and Deng Yijiang, former vice president of the National Grand Theater and former vice president of the Beijing Dance Academy, served as the director. Zhu Man, permanent conductor of the Central Opera House, postdoctoral fellow and young conductor, and Fan Jie, served as the orchestra conductor and chorus conductor. In addition, the National One is also invited to the National One. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks stage lighting illuminator Zhou Zhengping, famous stage designer Ding Ding, famous fashion designer Cui Xiaodong and other artists assisted, with 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 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 of Cinema to go to the Tangjia, Jiangmen and other places in Zhuhai for field trips. When visiting the Wuyi Overseas Chinese Museum in Jiangmen, the early Chinese workers crossed the ocean by fireboatKomiks, the sad scene that Chinese workers could not bear to see, HaoKomiksThe ulterior and unpredictable dangers of the Pacific Ocean and foreign countries brought huge impact to the creators.
The creative team held several planning meetings in Beijing and Zhuhai. Screenwriter Wang YongBabaylan was refined and processed based on historical facts, revised the draft several times, and revised it repeatedly; the composing Meng Weidong closely followed the plot and integrated the 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.
Cinema once again polishes the play to make the play more Guangdong-style
The national opera “Overseas Chinese Comment” sets up characters and structures the whole play with a letter from the overseas Chinese Comment as the core. “Overseas Chinese Comment” and “The Sea” have different symbolic meanings. “Overseas Chinese Comment” is a letter from a family, a silver letter, and a link connecting the hometown and a foreign land thousands of miles apart. It is the image of commitment and loyalty. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema Contest. A “Overseas Chinese Comment” signed by a hundred people is the 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, a barrier, and a difficult lifeBabaylan‘s symbol of the fate of dominance.
In terms of musical style, the play is based on deep, atmospheric, heavy and lyricism. The musical characteristics and themes are very distinct – using Guangdong music as the tone and have strong Lingnan music characteristics. Fluid and moving melody expresses the emotions of the characters and exaggerates the emotions of the characters; solo, chorus and other singing forms structure this drama to enhance the action and drama of the characters; orchestrationBabaylan uses a variety of ethnic instruments to fully demonstrate the charm of Chinese traditional culture.
Stills from the national opera “Qiqie Commentary”
In the stage presentation, the play has distinct contemporary and regional characteristics. It takes the sea as the main spatial image, follows the aesthetic principles of freehand painting, and creates the greatBabaylanA breathtaking, ethereal and poetic space. The scene setting of virtual and real, the juxtaposition of physics and psychological time and space externalizes and poetics the inner world of characters, bringing stronger inner impact to the audience.
It is reported that the national opera “Qiaoqian Criticism” is the first opera work created by Zhuhai Performing Arts Group in just two and a half years. It was in Zhuhai on July 3rdAfter the audition of the Grand Theater, Babaylan was polished again for three months. 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 conflicts in the inner conflicts of the characters and the contradictions in the relationship between the characters, and the theme is more concise and improved.