"The weather is too hot, July is in the scorching heat, and the audience has to go to work during the day, and it is actually very hard to see it so late every day." On July 7th, Wanping Theater, Mei Pai Da Qingyi Shi Yihong, together with Wang Xilong, Chen Lin, Xu Chaohao, Zhao Hongyun, Xu Chaoying and other young actors of the Shanghai Peking Opera Company, launched the "Yi Yi Xiang Mei" special series of performances called order. Shi Yihong was moved by the enthusiasm of the audience.
This year marks the 130th anniversary of Mei Lanfang's birth and the 90th anniversary of Mei Baojiu's birth.
"In 2013, I launched a special performance of 'Wenwu Kunchao Shi Yihong' at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and the Tianchan Yifu Stage in Shanghai, and performed for 5 consecutive days, and many audiences watched it for 5 consecutive days. That performance made me realize that the actors and the audience are actually a community, and the audience will give back what we give. In this special series of performances of "Yiyi Xiangmei", Shi Yihong performed 7 consecutive days of plays, including the classic repertoire of the Mei School "The Phoenix Returns to the Nest". In "Farewell My Concubine", the Plum Blossom Award winner Deng Muwei and the young actor Wang Xilong played the front and rear Xiang Yu. Her enlightenment drama "Yutang Chun" is the Mei School version of the Mei School that she learned from her teacher Lu Wenqin, and the "Cosmic Edge" that has not been performed for a long time has the Mei School Tsing Yi classic excerpt "Repair the book and pretend to be crazy". Shi Yihong will also debut with Ling Ke to perform the traditional drama "Dragon and Phoenix" with both singing and writing, "Dream in the Garden" restores Mei Lanfang's earliest version of Yuqunshe, and the traditional play "Fenhe Bay" starred with his old partner Li Jun.
Shi Yihong at the audience meeting
"Cosmic Edge" is a very important play in Meipai, it is very difficult, it is not that you can sing it when you learn it when you are a child, you can't understand it until you are a certain age, and you can slowly express the characters." After talking about "Cosmic Edge", Shi Yihong said that "Fenhe Bay" has another challenge, "The ridicule between husband and wife and the presentation of human feelings are particularly interesting, and they need comprehensive performances by actors." ”
In the special series of performances of "Yi Yi Xiang Mei", the difficult body skills of martial arts are equally wonderful as the gun tricks. The Xu brothers played Zhang Yipeng's version of "Siping Mountain", Chen Lin played "Battle Jizhou", Wang Xilong played the representative work of the Li faction "Zhong Kui Marrying Sister", and Zhao Hongyun played "Eight Hammers".
"Actors have to see the audience, and they can't stop seeing the audience, so that they can grow and progress." Shi Yihong took dozens of performances of "The Legend of the White Snake" in Japan as an example when he was a teenager, emphasizing the importance of performance. "Every one of us actors craves the stage." The young actors who partnered felt Shi Yihong's seriousness, "Sister Shi has always been meticulous from rehearsal to the theater. She started with the right words, full of tones, and fully devoted. Shi Yihong is also full of praise for the young actors, "As long as the practice room is opened, these actors are there, they really don't leave their fists and songs, they work very hard, and it can be seen that they love Peking Opera very much." ”
Actors pose for a photo with the audience
The scene of the audience meeting
Shi Yihong and a group of famous artists starred in carrying out multi-form and multi-dimensional artistic and aesthetic education activities through the "Dawanji" aesthetic education brand of Wanping Theater, providing a new type of viewing space for audiences who love Meipai and traditional culture. The opera dresser of the "Dawanji" aesthetic education brand project starts with the role of Li Yuanba, the "child general" of the new Gaipai Peking Opera "Siping Mountain" and the characteristics of makeup, and explains the "two door hugs" and "hooked face martial arts", and immersively experiences the costumes, props, and makeup process of Peking Opera. "Rehearsal in progress" allows fans to get closer to the rehearsal scene of the actors. "Co-production with Jiaoer" sang with Shi Yihong and other leading actors through new media platforms. Before and after the 7 performances, Wanping Theater will also launch an exclusive "Taipan Master VLOG", following the perspective of Shi Yihong and other actors, using the lens to restore the front and back of the stage.
Editor-in-chief: Shi Chenlu
Source: Author: Zhuge Yi