Per reporter: Du Wei Per editor: Chen Junjie
"It's more interactive than watching a concert." On the evening of November 22, at the 28th "Autumn of Rongcheng" Chengdu International Music Season Dai Yuqiang "Session", an audience member shared her viewing experience with the Daily Economic News reporter.
Dai Yuqiang is one of the three most well-known tenors in China and Pavarotti's only disciple in Asia. This time, Dai Yuqiang and several young singers of the Golden Bell Award brought classic songs such as "Little Mouth" and "Two Places" to the residents of Rongcheng City, and his high-pitched, mellow, and highly artistic voice deeply touched the audience. Dai Yuqiang also "guest-starred" as the host, and in addition to singing, he introduced the stories of Chinese and foreign vocal art and classic works, etc., and frequently interacted with music fans with anecdotes, and won applause from the audience in a relaxed and pleasant performance atmosphere. Dai Yuqiang even quipped, "Don't applaud so much, otherwise we won't be able to finish this performance for 3 hours." ”
Dai Yuqiang (2nd from left) leads several young singers of the Golden Bell Awards to perform on stage Photo courtesy of the organizer
Dai Yuqiang under the stage is a very humorous person. On the eve of the performance, in an interview with the "Daily Economic News" reporter, he expressed his views on young singers, online concerts, music education, etc.
"It doesn't matter what you sing, the key is to be attractive"
"How about my outfit today?" The interview was close to the performance time, Dai Yuqiang, dressed in blue clothes and black pants, refused the makeup artist who wanted to come over to touch up the makeup, and before the reporter could ask a question, he took the lead in throwing out this sentence, pulling a homely nagging and quickly narrowing the interview distance.
In the 90s of last century, Dai Yuqiang continued to stand out on major stages with his excellent singing skills; In 2001, Dai Yuqiang and Pavarotti formed a mentor-apprentice relationship, and since then began their journey to the world stage. He has sung many classic songs such as "You Are Such a Person", starred in Chinese and foreign operas such as "Tosca", "Turandot", "Bohemian", "Aida", "Mulan Poems" and so on, and has won many awards such as "Plum Blossom Award", "Five One Project Award" and "Wenhua Performance Award", the highest award in Chinese drama.
Photo courtesy of the organizer by Dai Yuqiang, who guest host
Dai Yuqiang, who has traveled to almost all cities in China, remembers Chengdu deeply, "Chengdu's musical soil is one of the best cities in the country. The 'Ba Shide Board' also reflects the participation and enjoyment of music by Chengdu people, and this musical atmosphere is the foundation for building a 'City of Music'. ”
Dai Yuqiang, who came to the "Autumn of Rongcheng" Chengdu International Music Season for three consecutive years, has also become an old friend of Chengdu people. Although it was the night of the World Cup, a large number of citizens still came to watch Dai Yuqiang's performance. This time, Dai Yuqiang also brought several young singers of the Golden Bell Award: Wang Zenan, Wu Pan, Li Siqi and Xu Ruiyang, allowing the audience to feel the rise of new forces in classical music.
"They have one thing in common, first of all, they all have a very good image." When talking to every reporter about the young singers who appeared on the stage together, Dai Yuqiang laughed that he was not "attractive" because he was only 1.80 meters tall, while the boys who performed with him were 1.85 meters, and the girls were more than 1.70 meters. Compared to me, the only slight difference is that I am a little luckier than theirs. ”
How could Dai Yuqiang, who became famous by virtue of his strength, become famous simply by "luck"? But whether it is during the interview time or at the performance site, Dai Yuqiang spares no effort to give young singers more opportunities to "show", and more than half of the post-80s tenors who are currently active on the opera stage are his students.
Two Chengdu citizens singing together on the stage 1 from the left and 2 from the right Photo courtesy of the organizer
At the performance site, Dai Yuqiang also raided and "captured" the two audience members on the stage together, pushing the entire concert to a climax. These two are not ordinary audiences, but also former disciples of Dai Yuqiang, and now they are also teachers and friends, and after a simple run-in, they quickly entered the singing state, breaking the audience's stereotype of bel canto concerts as "solemn". As Dai Yuqiang said at the scene, what singing method is not important, the key is to attract people, "use bel canto singing, sing Chinese songs well." ”
"I've been working hard and want to get closer to the classics"
Under the influence of the epidemic, cloud concerts and cloud performances have become the norm.
Dai Yuqiang also keenly observed the changes in mass consumption habits and living habits. "Today in an Internet era and artificial intelligence era, our main information exchange, information acquisition is done through intelligent terminals, and our artistic activities are also completed through intelligent terminals, then it will form a challenge impact on our stage art, the highest cultural expression of industrial civilization."
"When the smart terminal is used well, it is a help to our stage art." In Dai Yuqiang's view, the cloud performance carried by the smart terminal is a double-edged sword, "watching it on a mobile phone is completely different from watching it in a concert hall or opera house." Many things on the stage change their flavor when they reach the mobile phone, and it is difficult to feel the charm of the original bel canto, opera, symphonic music, etc. in the mobile phone. ”
Although it is during the World Cup, Dai Yuqiang's performance in Rongcheng is almost full Photo courtesy of the organizer
Indeed, cultural content such as concerts and movies needs to be watched offline in order to truly move and reach the inner world of the public. After the hustle and bustle online, most of them can only become a memory of the Internet, and it is difficult to keep in our minds.
Despite receiving a lot of applause, Dai Yuqiang is also suffering from questions such as "breaking the rules of the industry", which is triggered by the "smart terminal" he discussed with every reporter. Long before the popular online concert, Dai Yuqiang tried online teaching. At the end of 2014, he planned and launched the world's first vocal popularization MOOC platform "Dai You Sing".
Dai Yuqiang, who came out of a rural family in Hebei, knows that "insufficient music teachers" is the primary problem for the development of the shackled industry. Through the Internet, he wants to explore a new way to break the inherent barriers of China's music education system. In 8 years, Dai Yuqiang, who does not sell classes or bring goods, has tapped a group of potential young people through "Dai You Sing". "I believe in the old saying 'moisturizing things are silent', you have to do it, it's useless to just shout slogans, you have to do it sincerely and realistically." Dai Yuqiang believes that art should not only enter the public life, but should become a part of the public life.
"Pavarotti Disciple" is another aura that Dai Yuqiang is known to everyone. "That's the master, the idol that singers all over the world look up to. I have had the privilege of having some intersections with masters and have been taught face-to-face by masters. Dai Yuqiang bluntly told every reporter that there is a gap with the master, "I have been working hard, hoping to get closer to the classic and perfect master." There is a spiritual pleasure in letting the audience hear more beautiful sounds, and I feel very relieved to be able to do this. ”
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