The Paper's reporter Pan Yu
On the afternoon of February 28th, the Shanghai Oriental Art Center art talk show "LuTalk Oriental City Lights" welcomed the first group of guests this year: Fu Xiru of Shanghai Peking Opera House and Shi Xiaming of Jiangsu Kun Opera House, who are the main actors of their respective theaters and genres, as well as the contemporary communication practitioners of Beijing-Kun opera art. What is particularly coincidental is that in recent years, both of them have starred in an original work related to "Mei Lanfang", which was staged at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center. Therefore, this event is also a special gathering of "Meilang" in Jingkun.
The scene of the event
In this art talk show activity, the two discussed and shared with nearly 200 audiences on several topics such as the integrity and innovation of traditional culture, the fashion dissemination of opera, and the relationship between literature and art and the city. Therefore, the activity also shows the combination of Beijing and Kunming, and the beauty and beauty are shared.
It is reported that "LuTalk • Oriental City Light" is jointly planned and sponsored by Shanghai Oriental Art Center and Lujiazui Administration Bureau of Shanghai Free Trade Zone and Lujiazui Financial City Development Bureau, and celebrities from different industries and fields are invited from time to time to interpret urban culture from different angles, refine urban spirit, and spread urban civilization.
Interpret Mei Lanfang to rethink integrity and innovation
"Oriental City Lights" invited Fu Xiru and Shi Xiaming at the same time, both because of the Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang.
Fu Xiru
Shi Xiaming
Fu Xiru played the middle-aged Mei Lanfang in an original Peking opera "Mei Lanfang Beard", which was staged in Dongyi at the end of last year, showing the well-known patriotic story of the master Beard Mingzhi. According to Fu Xiru himself, playing Mei Lanfang is his dream come true, and he has pushed away 16 scenes in one breath. In the process of interpreting Master Mei, he also more deeply understood the relationship between integrity and innovation, which can be described as indispensable.
Shi Xiaming and Fu Xiru both played a generation of masters Mei Lanfang
Shi Xiaming will also bring the newly compiled modern Kun opera "Mei Lanfang Meilang" to play Mei Lanfang in his youth in April this year, and will participate in the 12th Oriental Famous Opera Month performance in April this year.
"Mei Lanfang Mei Lang" is an original Kunqu modern drama, in this talk show lecture, Shi Xiaming said, "Before, many audiences heard the three words 'modern drama' in Kunqu modern drama, they would immediately scoff, and they would think that Kunqu opera was arranged in a modern drama, could they tell a modern story?" ”
Shi Xiaming said that there are indeed many challenges in the kunqu opera pai modern drama, especially in the play-within-a-play of this play, he also specially studied the Peking Opera Meipai classic "Farewell to the King".
"But we also gave birth to some thoughts, that is, is Kunqu opera really completely unable to perform modern dramas?" Can we really not find the point of compromise? We Kunqu opera really can't interpret and circulate for these touching people or things in modern times. I think that our Kun Theater in Jiangsu Province has also used these years of continuous exploration to show the attitude of our theater, if a genre of drama gives itself the positioning of only tradition, can only play the things passed down to us by the ancestors, from this moment on, it will not progress again. ”
Therefore, Shi Xiaming finally concluded, "Kunqu in contemporary times is not only the state of living fossils, it should also take on the current people and things, and spread the beauty of the present to everyone and tell everyone, I think this is the way we promote Kunqu among young people." ”
Literary and artistic workers are the soul engineers of the city
Urban development has always been one of the important topics of LuTalk Oriental City Light. When it comes to the relationship between the city and literature and art, Fu Xiru and Shi Xiaming have surprisingly identical views. Both felt that literature and art played an indispensable role in the development of the city at present.
Shi Xiaming said, "Everyone's life is getting better and better, buy something on Taobao and casually place an order, the next day the express delivery will arrive, want to eat something takeaway 30 minutes to deliver." While everyone's material life is constantly enriched and satisfied, more people have begun to pursue a spiritual life, and what we literary and art workers bear is actually to provide everyone with a spiritual feast. ”
Fu Xiru also shared a mental journey during the new crown epidemic last year, "At the beginning of the epidemic, I felt that everything was useless as an actor, doctors were on the front line to save people, traffic police maintained order, everyone can create their own value, but what can actors do? Later, under the enlightenment of teacher Xi Meijuan, he realized that actors can inspire people through their works, inspire people's hearts, and guide the right direction and concept, "Spiritual power is huge, no less than what materials give." We literary and art workers can be said to be engineers of the soul, and the city brings us convenient living material conditions, but spiritual sublimation depends on literary and artistic workers to give. ”
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