Ten years of life gather and gall, and ten years of lessons cast blood swords. On the evening of October 7, the large-scale original Yue Opera epic "Brave Sword Thousand Autumns" premiered at the Shaoxing Grand Theater. Ming Wenjun, Director of the Art Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and Shi Huifang, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, jointly opened the gong for the premiere of "A Thousand Autumns of Courage". Yao Youchao, Director of the Art Development Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Song Chen, former Secretary of the Party Committee and President of the National Peking Opera Company, Lv Weigang, Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, Wu Dengfen, Tan Zhigui, Wei Wei, Ding Ruxing, Ma Guocan, etc., attended the performance with the heads of relevant units at the higher levels, the heads of relevant departments and units of Shaoxing City and Keqiao District, the main creative team of the Yue Opera epic "A Thousand Autumns of Courageous Sword", experts in the opera industry and representatives of opera fans and audiences, etc., to watch the performance and jointly review the "Writing a Brave Sword in the New Era" given to Shaoxing by General Secretary Xi Jinping The historical mission is to vigorously carry forward the spirit of courage and sword in the new era.
The "spirit of courage and sword" originated in the late Spring and Autumn Period, when the Yue King Goujian "lay down and taste the gall", and has become a representative symbol of the Yue culture in the thousand-year historical evolution. "A Thousand Autumns of Courage" adheres to the guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on the inspection of Zhejiang, the spirit of Shaoxing's important instructions and Xi Jinping's cultural thought, takes the art of Yue Opera as the carrier, and takes the millennium time and space of Shaoxing as the background, with a total of three acts and five scenes, using 11 genres of Yue Opera singing, with Fan Zhongyan, Xu Wei, Xie Daoyun, Wang Yangming, Lu Xun and a large number of eternal romantic characters as group portraits, telling their vivid stories of sacrificing themselves and continuing to struggle to promote the progress of the times, the liberation of the people, and the rejuvenation of the nation. It shows the profound cultural heritage and high-spirited spirit of Yuedi.
How can the soft Yue opera deduce the heaviness of an epic drama? Compared with the narrative conventions of one character, a period of time, and a story in traditional Yue dramas, "A Thousand Autumns of Courage" breaks the routine from the "source" of script creation, and each scene in the play is both interrelated and independent. On the basis of strictly following historical facts, the characters are displayed in three dimensions by using the technique of traveling through time and space and integrating the past and the present. Fan Zhongyan, who is diligent in government and loves the people, innocent and self-controlled, Xu Wei, who is not attached to people in life and has a brave sword in his belly, Xie Daoyun who has armor in his body and a sword in his heart, Yao Qisheng who is dedicated to the public and the country with his body, as well as Wang Yangming, a master of psychology, Qiu Jin, a woman from Jianhu, and a generation of writers Lu Xun...... Behind the singing and crying people with lofty ideals, there is the endless spirit of courage and sword.
"A Thousand Autumns of Courage" is a key project and a new exploration of the "Central and Local Cooperation" between the Art Development Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Keqiao District. With the strong support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the play has formed a creative team in the mode of "central and local cooperation", forming a main creative team with Zhu Hai, an outstanding expert of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and Lu Ang, a professor of Shanghai Theater Academy, as the core, with Shaoxing Xiaobaihua 4 Plum Blossom Award actors, 9 national first-class actors and Shaobai 6th generation actors as the main cast. The play officially started creation in December 2023, completed the script in June this year, and started rehearsals on July 1, and has been included in the "three-year action plan" of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to promote the high-quality development of cultural tourism.
It is reported that after the premiere, the play will also be performed in Jinjing and will be on a national tour.
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