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"Fish and fish, swim, our boat is going to fight. Yoya Yan'er, fly, our gun is going to kill the enemy ..." The fact is the background. It tells the legendary story of the "Yan Yan Team" of the Baiyangdian Anti -Japanese Armed Forces in Hebei. Red praise. "Yan Yan Team" has a historical contemplation, the accumulation of culture, with the revolutionary beliefs, and the feelings of Yan Zhao, which spreads a large elephant and the sky.

Stills of the National Opera "Yan Yan Team" performance

1. Keeping innovation, creative transformation and innovative development of traditional Chinese culture

One of the major features of the national opera "Yan Yan Team" is the prominent regional color, integrating the singing of Hebei Province Hebei Xunzi into the music creation of the opera. There are many lyrical or colorful scenes in the play, all of which are used to express the storyline, shape the character image, and reveal the heart of the character based on the plate cavity section created by Hebei Xunzi. An important manifestation of Sinicization. Such as Zhang Niang's "Family Family Heroes", Xiaoling's "Yan Fei Ren", Yinglian "Let's Meet Meet" and other plate cavity singing sections, and integrate the drag cavity and tight slow singing and accompaniment music in Hebei Xunzi singing board. And the actor bite words, vocals and tone from the opera singing method, so that these plate cavity singing sections not only reflect the color of Hebei regional colors, but also better reveal the ups and downs of the characters in the ups and downs of the characters. Essence

Stills of the National Opera "Yan Yan Team" performance

Borrowing the seeds of music in Hebei folk songs, the creative transformation and innovative development of it have become the music vocabulary of opera, making it more suitable for opera performance. It can be seen in the opera "Yan Yan Team" that the composer intends to develop the Hebei folk songs and other sisters' art materials and change into the opera music of "Yan Yan Team". Hey -Bai Yangdian is a good scenery "on the basis of the melody of the Pingshan folk song" Going to your mountain beams, I will go my ditch "for creative transformation and innovative development, so that the audience sounds sound again Careful and familiar; in the music prelude to the music, the music vocabulary of the folk song "The New Music Brigade" during the Hebei Anti -Japanese War period is borrowed from the time of the flute, sometimes orchestral band, and sometimes chorus, which not only completed the era of folk songs. The interpretation of the classic folk songs.

On the basis of the narrative of the national opera "Yan Yan Team", they respect the aesthetic needs and auditory habits of Chinese audiences on the basis of following the rules of opera creation. The pronunciation of Western opera is different from my country's four -sound tone. If you repeatedly create a narrative according to the same sound, it is not like talking Chinese. Therefore, the negative character's narrative and music creation draw on the technical means of traditional music in my country, based on the motivation of Baoding Old Tune, and combined according to the characteristics of the four sounds of China. Baoding Old Tune is a unique opera drama in Hebei. It originated in Baiyangdian and was born from Yan Zhao's folk song "Hexi Tune". He also absorbed Hebei Xunzi and local rap art essence during development. Therefore, the paragraphs such as "Whether to sell or not sell", "Double Compensation", "Step Breaking the Iron Shoes No Place", which are developed by Baoding Old Tune Music, have the characteristics of Hebei, singing like singing, vivid and smooth. The expression of hearing habits tells the story of Chinese.

The play uses the theme of music creation techniques. "Yan'er Fei" is the theme music of the hero group. The composer uses this theme motivation to use repeated, varied, expand, and reproduce. Repeatedly occurred in the blood of the entire opera. The theme of "Yan'er Fei" was first opened in the prelude "Symphony and Chorus", and repeatedly appeared in different parts of the whole drama during the period. The first scene of the song "Yan'er Fei" sung by everyone and the crowd was the core paragraph. The song "Yan'er Fei" is a single three ABA song structure. The emotional tone of this song is strong and firm. The melody A melody is lyrical and long. Children's love and vowing to defend the homeland of their hometown, reproduce the reappearance of the a melody of the reappearance of E and reproduce the melody. The red music theme of "Yan'er Fei" is an important component of the heroes of the Yanyu team, and it is also an important support for the music structure throughout the drama.

The play uses solo, singing, triple singing, chorus, lead singer and chorus, etc., to reveal the character's heart, shape the character image, promote the development of the plot, and express the drama conflict, and portray the vivid heroic image of the Yanyu team. The paragraphs of the heroic image of the hero include Yinglian's "Entering Tiger Point, Save Xiaoling" and "We Meet Meet", etc., showing the spirit of Yinglian's revolution to the end, to save friends to save friends. The leader and chorus "Big Ring", the music is cheerful and funny, expressing the joy of the players after winning the victory, and vividly portrayed the revolutionary optimism spirit of the Yanyu team; 》 It is a paragraph that shows the hero group in the form of chorus. With the rhythm and magnificent chorus of the tone and magnificent tone and the magnificent chorus, the players of the Yanji team are heroic and brave and brave.

Second, evoke red memory, show cultural consciousness, and the creation of Hebei opera creation

The opera has played a huge role in the history of the Chinese revolution. It is the effective art form of promoting the party's line and policy policies and uniting the people. Hebei has the tradition of opera creation, and the creators are good at learning from tradition, learning from the people, followed the situation of the times, and achieved fruitful results in terms of creation. After the founding of New China, the artists in Hebei were full of passion and devoted themselves to opera creation. In 1964, the Hebei Opera Theater created the opera "Good Garden", and entered Hebei in the 1980s to create many light opera, such as "Lang Patch" in 1980, "Wangfu Strange Shadow" in 1981, 1982 in 1982. "Cherry Delicious Tree", "Three Sisters of Liu Lin" in 1983, "Fashionable Youth and Strange Chicken" in 1985, and the opera "Their Heart" based on Sun Li's "Baiyangdian Chronicle" in 1986. After a lapse of more than 30 years, a national opera "Yan Yan Team", which reflects the heroic children of Baiyangdian, sang in the land of Hebei. The opera "Yan Yan Team" premiered in 2020. In 2021, he was funded by the National Art Fund and was selected as the key support works of the "Hundred Years of the Ministry" of the Ministry of Culture. one. "Yan Yan Team" has been polishing for many years, and revised 19 drafts before and after. It is not only the accumulation of Baiyangdian regional culture, but also the historical testimony of the people of Hebei to fight against the Japanese invaders and fight against Japanese imperialism. Historical significance. It takes Chinese music as the motivation, and uses the combination of opera and traditional Chinese music to reproduce the history of Yan Zhao's children who devoted himself to the torrent of revolution. Among them, 4 battle scenes, 7 ships 10 times, 12 reeds continue to switch. Coupled with the superb performances of actors with deep opera skills on the stage, and supplemented by technical means such as sound and light, they artificially present the fierce fighting scenes of flames, gunlin rains, and forgotten life. "Blow, Bai Yangdian's Wind", "People in Water Village", "Wind Blowing Lotus Shimbia" and other songs such as a beautiful melody, singing Baiyangdian "Wind blowing lotus flower ten miles incense, picking the top of the lotus leaves. The small boat, the sun is sunny to shade and cool ". The stage uses simple and powerful expressions to move Bai Yangdian's reeds, lotus, boats, wild ducks, wild geese, etc. to the stage. Through the contrast between moving and quiet, the audience shows a unique Yan Zhao feelings. The quiet and agile, the vast Baiyangdian landscape painting volume. It is the contemporary presentation of red memory, a contemporary inheritance of red faith and red culture.

"Yan Yan Team" performance stills

When the "Yan Yan Team" was preparing to create in 2018, Hebei has not been in the opera for more than 30 years. Essence The national opera "Yan Yan Team" focuses on the cultivation of the local young opera actors in Hebei, and builds a stage for young art workers to learn and show. The young opera actor of the play, some of them were mass literary workers, some were transferred soldiers, some were school music teachers, and some were singers and dancers. When you make a place, every time you rehearse, you are carved carefully and strive to achieve self -improvement and self -transcendence. They follow the drama growth and emerge on the stage. This drama has created a national opera that reproduces the historical facts of the revolutionary history, promotes the spirit of the revolution, sings the memories of the times, and sings the national spirit. At the same time, it has also trained a group of opera performance talents for Hebei, promoting the opera business of Hebei Healthy and orderly development.

Special author: Wang Xiaodan, Hebei Provincial Institute of Culture and Tourism, the picture in the article is provided by Hebei Provincial Art Center

Editor -in -chief: Li Yang

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