"Thirteen Arts" Highlights | Interview: "Dunhuang Daughter" reproduces Fan Jinshi to protect Dunhuang's life epic

On August 30th and 31st, the 13th China Art Festival exhibition performances and the original large Shanghai opera "Dunhuang Daughter" created by the Shanghai and Shanghai Theater were staged at the Hengshui Poly Theater. The play is starred by the famous Shanghai opera performers and national first -level actors Mao Shanyu, starring Qian Sijian, Ling Yueang, and Wu Zhengguang, to bring together the Chinese opera gold medal creative team, which lasted for eleven years. The story of the dean, "touching the Chinese figure" Fan Jinshi.

Stills of Shanghai Opera "Dunhuang Daughter". Photo Shen Gang

"This drama is about the extraordinary life of Dean Fan Jinshi. We tell the great contribution of several generations of Dunhuang people for the protection of Dunhuang culture with her life. Create the love of national culture. "Mao Shanyu, played by Fan Jinshi, told reporters that this drama discovered this theme from the main creators, created in the desire, then went to Dunhuang to experience life, picking style, and then writing into the script, and then then became a script. Expost, adjust multiple adjustments, modify after the performance, and experience such a long creative process, which can be called "eleven years of grinding a sword".

Stills of Shanghai Opera "Dunhuang Daughter". Photo Shen Gang

In the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, the Dunhuang people represented by Fan Jinshi used youth and sweat, adhered to and dedicated, and deeply cultivated the desert, and gave birth to a shining spirit of Mogao. On the stage of the Shanghai drama, Fan Jinshi played by Mao Shanyu sang the persistence of "choosing one thing and lasting a lifetime" in the Shanghai voice of Wu Nong's soft language, and became the communicator of contemporary Dunhuang culture. The two "Shanghai daughters" associated because of a report "willing to use life to guard Dunhuang". Mao Shanyu performed from the age of 25 to the 80s in the play. Her simple and familiar performance, the vocal aria, the voice of the words, the expression when thinking, and every detail of the hands and feet are. Later, carefully presented on the stage.

Stills of Shanghai Opera "Dunhuang Daughter". Photo Shen Gang

In the play, Fan Jinshi's singing section was designed by Mao Shanyu himself, which not only expressed the rich and profound feelings between husband and wife, but also showed the implicit restraint of intellectuals. It also integrated Dunhuang feelings with Jiangnan charm. In order to add expressiveness, she added ups and downs in the basic tune of the Shanghai opera, incorporating Peking opera and opera singing methods to make it more powerful and more tension. In the performance, the melody and emotions naturally flowed out of her heart, and she sang while crying. There are dozens of narratives and sighs in the play, the longest singing section is nearly 20 minutes.

Stills of Shanghai Opera "Dunhuang Daughter". Photo Shen Gang

art works created by" very hearty, very affection, and hard work ". Finally lived up to expectations, and was recognized in the play. After the "Dunhuang Daughter" was staged, Mr. Fan Jinshi came to the scene eight times to watch, and gave this work about the "Dunhuang people" very affirmed: "This drama is very deep, the singing is very connotative, and the singing is very pleasant. "

Since its premiere in May 2018, the Shanghai drama "Dunhuang Daughter" has performed more than 70 games, and has gone through more than ten cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Dunhuang, Lanzhou, Xi'an, Wuhan, Nanjing, Suzhou, Zhenjiang. Wherever he goes, it has been highly evaluated by many industry experts. The audience's response was enthusiastic, and the media scrambled to report, winning widespread praise.

Stills of Shanghai Opera "Dunhuang Daughter". Photo Shen Gang

"A good drama requires all kinds of refining, and creating an excellent art work cannot be achieved overnight, and it needs to be slowly precipitated." Mao Shanyu said that although the play has achieved the success of the creation and performance before, it is now the 17th Wenhua Award for the review. The "Wenhua Performance Award", under the improvement of the main creative staff, has greatly improved the drama on the basis of the original. "Our characters are more delicate and accurate. In the way of singing of music melody, we have also found a more infectious way of‘ with love ’.”

Stills of Shanghai Opera "Dunhuang Daughter". Photo Shen Gang

Since August 12, the crew of "Dunhuang Daughter" has adhered to the responsibility and responsibility of "creating quality with ingenuity", and repeated drills on performances, singing, music, lighting, audio, multimedia, and other links. Finally, this work that shows the "model of the times", promotes the "Mogao Spirit", and interprets "Haipai Culture" in the 13th China Art Festival.

The Dunhuang Daughter was performed in Hengshui, attracting many local young audiences. "Without several generations of scholars' love for Dunhuang, the dedication and persistence of Mogao Grottoes, maybe we can no longer see Mogao Grottoes today." Wang Zhiyuan, a citizen of Hengshui who came to watch, said, "I am the story of this drama, Music, singing, and dancing are attracted to the cultural spirit, cultural mind, and cultural self -confidence in the play.

Qian Sijian, a well -known Shanghai opera actor, national first -level actor, Fan Jinshi's husband Peng Jinzhang, said: "Our performance has achieved a complete success. The audience here is very enthusiastic and gives us great encouragement. I am very pleased . If there is still a chance in the future, we will come back to the water and present our Shanghai opera art for the majority of the audience. "

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