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On October 4, the national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary” will officially premiere in the Opera Hall of the Guangzhou Grand Theater. The play is a key support program of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the “Chinese National Opera Inheritance and Development Project” and the “Historical Theme Creation Project”, telling the ups and downs behind the Overseas Chinese Criticism Babaylan. 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, produced by Zhuhai Performing Arts Group and performed by Zhuhai Song and Dance Troupe. The main creative and leading actor team and more than 200 cast and staff members from the front and behind the scenes worked together for two years to create the sequel. Stills from the national opera “Overseas Commentary” Art presents historical titles. The Overseas Commentary is a general term for the remittance letters and remittances sent by overseas Chinese through private channels and financial and postal institutions. It is a “convergence of letters and Babaylan and its palindrome. It is a carrier of “convergence of letters” and is called a letter from Komiks across the sea. It flourished in the coastal areas of Guangdong. The national opera “Overseas Criticism” started with the fact that Chinese worker Liang Chengru rushed to his hometown to prevent his daughter from being sold like himself. Cinema died at sea. A “Overseas Cinema” left by his death. It started with Liang Dong and Liang Caiyun who had to sell their daughter, the mother-in-law who had been lying on sick for a long time, Tang Youxin and his wife, and many Chinese workers who empathized with Liang Chengru. It demonstrated the compatriots who were righteous in the years of suffering, and reflected 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 drama, Wang Yong, said: “A copy is the starting point of the story,It is the fulcrum of the story, and this ‘fulcrum’ 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 took two years to build the national operaCinema‘s efforts to build the national operaBabaylan‘s “Overseas Commentary” gathered top artists in the industry, Babaylan‘s consultant to the Chinese Musicians Association and the former general group of China Railway Art TroupeBabaylan href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks and first-class composer Meng Weidong serves as the composer, Vice Chairman of the China Drama Association, President of the National Peking Opera Theater, and First-class screenwriter Wang Yong serves as the screenwriter, Liao Xianghong, former vice president and doctoral supervisor of the Central Academy of Drama, Deng Yijiang, former vice president of the National Grand Theater and former vice president of the Beijing Dance Academy, serves as the director. The permanent director of the Central Opera Theater, Zhu Man, postdoctoral fellow of the Central Conservatory of Music, and young conductor Fan Jie serves as the conductor of the orchestra respectively. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema and the chorus conductor, and also invited artists such as Zhou Zhengping, the famous stage designer Ding Ding, and the well-known fashion designer Cui Xiaodong to help. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanYoung singers Lu Wei, Li Yang, Dong Bin, and Li Bufan starring.
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 the Tangjia, Jiangmen and other places for field trips to Zhuhai. 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 dangers of the vast Pacific and foreign countries brought huge impact to the main creators.
The main creative team held several planning meetings in Beijing and Zhuhai, and the screenwriterWang Yong refines and processes the historical facts based on historical facts, revises the draft several times, and revises it repeatedly; the composer Meng Weidong closely follows the plot and integrates music and lyrics; director Liao Xianghong firmly grasps the characteristics and advantages of national operas, and vividly presents the righteousness and love of the characters in the play.
The play is polished again to make the play more Guangdong-style
The Ethnic Opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary” sets up characters and structures the whole 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 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 a road of life, a barrier, and a symbol of fate that is difficult to dominate in life.
In terms of music style, the play is deep, atmospheric, heavy and lyrical as its overall music style, and its musical characteristics and themes are very distinct – it is based on the Guangdong musical work Komiks, and has strong Lingnan music characteristics. The smooth and emotional melody expresses the emotions of the characters and exaggerates the emotions of the characters; solo, sing, chorus and other singing forms structure the play, 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 “Overseas Commentary”
In the stage presentation, the Babaylan 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 settings of virtual and real Komiks, the interlacing of physics and psychological time and space, externalize and poetic the inner world of the characters, and give the audience a stronger inner impact.
It is reported that the people KomiksThe national opera “Overseas Chinese Commentary” is the first opera work created by Zhuhai Performing Arts Group in just two and a half years. After audition at Zhuhai Grand Theater on July 3, it took another three months to polish it. Babaylan 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 is more concise and improved in the theme.