"July 1st" is approaching, and the original national opera "March of the Volunteers" jointly produced by the Shanghai Opera House and the Shanghai Xuhui District Culture and Tourism Bureau is prominently listed on the red huge repertoire recommendation board in the National Centre for the Performing Arts. From 5 to 6 July, this Shanghai original opera will be presented to Beijing audiences for the first time as part of the 2024 NCPA Opera Festival. On June 25, the play held a media conference at the National Center for the Performing Arts.
As a 2024 large-scale stage play and work creation funding project of the National Arts Fund, a major literary and artistic creation commission project in Shanghai, and a project funded by the Art Development Fund of the Shanghai Grand Theatre Art Center, the original national opera "March of the Volunteers" has created a group portrait of left-wing literary and artistic workers represented by progressive young people such as Tian Han, Nie Er, Xia Yan, Situ Huimin, Xu Xingzhi, Wang Renmei, etc., eulogizing the "Fengyun Era" and its emerging "Fengyun Figures", and interpreting "Fengyun Children" and the "Fengyun Song" it bred.
The red IP "cross-border resonance" stimulates the feelings of the family and the country
As an important red resource in Shanghai, the memorial hall of the "March of the Volunteers" is the birthplace of the national anthem, with a century-old protected building and exquisite exhibitions in the museum, attracting many tourists at home and abroad all year round. Before the text of the opera "March of the Volunteers" was created, the main writers and creators went to the Baidai Xiaolou many times to collect on-the-spot style, and "moved" the desk of the national anthem composer Nie Er in the Baidai Xiaolou to the stage, and the real scene was reproduced. The cross-border cooperation between red cultural venues and original national operas has aroused "resonance", continuously expanding new models and new scenes of red cultural dissemination and inheritance, making static collections vivid, making cultural heritage more innovative, cultural exchanges more communicative, and cultural empowerment and development more driving force, so that young audiences can more intuitively feel that turbulent history and stimulate the feelings of family and country.
Up to now, the opera "March of the Volunteers" has been performed 39 times, from professional theaters in Shanghai to colleges and universities, and then to all parts of the country. Baidai Xiaolou also took this opportunity to bring the "Story of Me and the National Anthem" sharing activity into the theater, inviting citizens and audiences to leave messages, stimulating people's patriotic enthusiasm, enhancing national cultural self-confidence, and then generating the willingness to visit the birthplace of the national anthem.
Immersive "Great Ideological and Political Courses" to expand red culture education
Since the premiere at the end of 2023, the Xuhui District Bureau of Culture and Tourism and the Shanghai Opera House have actively explored new models and scenarios for the dissemination and inheritance of red culture, forming a "1+1>2" advantageous synergy, and jointly carrying out themed education and extension activities online and offline, such as situational literary and artistic party classes, red literature and art on campus, mobile art tours, and resident performances, bringing the original national opera "March of the Volunteers" into campuses and communities, deepening and expanding red culture education in immersive ideological and political courses, and making party history education visible, sensible, and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
From March 5th to 8th, 2024, as one of the important activities of "Museum at the Doorstep of the Door, 2024 Red Culture on Campus", the District Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the District Education Bureau, together with the Shanghai Opera House and Wanping Theater, brought a public performance of the original national opera "March of the Volunteers" in 4 days to the teachers and students of Xuhui District. Nearly 7,000 teachers and students from 20 pilot schools in the overall pilot area of the big ideological and political course in the district watched this opera, which resonated with teachers and students and deeply touched the "heartstrings" of the children. Through the immersive practice of appreciating the "Great Ideological and Political Course", the red gene will take root in the hearts of young people, lead the young generation to draw strength from the red spiritual bloodline, enrich the spiritual world of young people, and establish correct values, patriotic spirit and cultural self-confidence for them.
It is understood that the District Bureau of Culture and Tourism hopes to form a "Shanghai model" for the integration of performing arts and social forces in the new era through the effective promotion of the process of creating fine arts, and jointly promote the "height", "intensity" and "concentration" of Shanghai's literature and art, so as to create a Shanghai sample of cultural self-confidence and self-improvement.
Text: Xuhui Cultural Tourism
Editor: Ye Fangfang
Proofreading: Geng Jieyu
Reviewer: Wei Li