[Thirteen Arts · Drama Reviews] The national opera "Yan Yan Team": A hero of heroes in the mountains and rivers

Ji Shi Special commentator Fan Hongya/

As the participation of the 13th China Art Festival, the national opera "Yan Yan Team" produced by the Hebei Provincial Art Center, full of tension drama structures; illegal music; beautiful, realistic stage presence ... show the Yanyu team Anti -Japanese legend. While appreciating the art feast, the audience also aroused the infinite admiration of the audience's revolutionary pioneer of the Yanyu team and the passion of the current officer entrepreneurship. The play competed for the highest award in the field of stage art in my country with high levels, the Mandarin Award, which opened a wonderful stage art feast for the audience.

The drama structure full of tension. The national opera "Yan Yan Team" tells the legendary story of the Anti -Japanese War during the Anti -Japanese War. The drama puts aside the grand narrative method, but cuts in from the feelings of Chizi and the perspective of the people. The display of contradictions depicts us a grand picture of the national liberation war. In the design of the character relationship, the two pairs of character relationships are set up: the heroine Yinglian and his brother Liu Jincai, the male protagonist Zhang Diansheng and Master Shen and the two dogs have built a clue of the show. Although the character relationship and storyline of the play is simple, it is very dramatic. With the advancement of the plot, under the call of Zhang Diansheng, the ordinary farm female female Yinglian, she continued to grow in the struggle, becoming a brave warrior and a woman to save the president, and finally to save Xiaoling, to live, to live, to live, If you change your life and sacrifice heroically; and Liu Jincai, who is delicious and lazy, starts from the beginning, finally becomes a traitor and a dog. Brothers and sisters, different personalities, different values, different positions, different fate. The contradiction between Zhang Diansheng and the enemy and me between Master Shen and the two dogs is even more clear. This narrative method that is opposed to the relationship between ordinary characters can better highlight the disclosure of the drama's image shape, personality conflict, and value orientation contradictions, and then express the irreconcilable contradiction between the people's army and the power of reaction. This method of narrative method with small opinions, things, and trustee is used to highlight the dramatic structure tension, and it has also enhanced its authenticity.

The perfect fusion of music and drama. Opera, it is different from opera and drama. The script is the starting point, and music is a foothold. How to achieve the perfect integration of the two is the goal of its pursuit. The most commendable in the opera "Yan Yan Team" is the use of the theme music of "Yan'er Fei". It runs through the prelude to the opera "Yan Yan Team", the scenes, the singing section, and the end. The theme music "Yan'er Fei" in the play "Yan'er Fei" has been presented through various forms such as bands, re -singing, chorus, solo, etc., and repeatedly presents the audience's historical memory and national emotions. , Drama effect. The prelude to "fish and fish, swim, our boat is going to fight. Yan'er Yan'er, fly, let's kill the enemy ..." The opening. The theme music has appeared many times between the scenes. The core singing section appeared in the chorus paragraph of Yinglian and the crowd. At the end of the opera, the singing "Yan'er Fei" ended. The repeated appearance of this theme music has deeply expressed the heroic spirit of Bai Yangdian's children's love and bravery to kill the enemy and defending the country, and to keep the theme of the play. In addition, the opera "Yan Yan Team" uses a variety of music forms such as solo, duet, chorus, lead singer to shape the character image, making the character image fuller. For example, Zhang Diansheng's solo "Return to Bai Yangdian" expresses his determination and confidence in his family and defending his family; Yinglian's "Entering Tiger Point, Save Xiaoling" expresses her revolutionary spirit of sacrifice and depending on death. Another example is Zhang Diansheng and Yinglian's "I know, I yearn for the year", expressing the determination of the two to defend the hometown. Another example is the heroic group of hero groups that chorus "The Song of Yan Yan Team" portrayed the Yanyu team to defend the country, heroic war, and firm revolutionary victory.

Aesthetic and realistic stage presentation. The dance designer of the opera "Yan Yan Team" uses modern artificial intelligence technology to create a beautiful stage effect. Realistic, beautiful Bai Yangdian, lush reeds, beautiful lotus flowers, high -flying geese, smart wooden boats ... accompanied by enrollment music, instantly aroused the audience's red memory of the "Yan Yan team" to kill the enemy, At the same time, it also shows the story and regional characteristics of the opera "Yan Yan Team". First of all, in the opera "Yan Yan Team", the director designed many exquisite scenes according to the development of the plot. These scenes are perfectly combined with the folk tone, and the opera vocal singing in the orchestral music, chorus, and reconfunction, making it more "authentic "". Secondly, the beauty of the opera "Yan Yan Team" is magnificent, simple and fresh, which not only reflects the symbol of Yan Zhao's culture, but also shows the beautiful and magnificent natural scenery of Baiyangdian. For example, Yinglian's solo "The Wind Blowing the Lotus Shi Xiang" "The wind blows the lotus flower ten miles of incense, picking the lotus leaves on the top of the lotus leaf. Push the waves like a boat, the sun is sunny to cover the shade. Yumi Township ... "The beautiful singing is matched with exquisite dance beauty, as if bringing the audience directly to the beautiful Bai Yangdian. In addition, the setting scene on the stage also adopts a combination of dynamic and static to present the audience. On the sparkling water, Yan Yanqi has repeatedly dealt with the enemy. In addition, the play also uses multimedia technology to show the war scenes of fire smoke and killing the sky, such as the fourth of fighting music. "The context at the time of sound shocked the audience, as if he came to the war full of smoke. On the whole, the opera "Yan Yan Team" not only reproduces the legendary story of the Baiyangdian Yanyu team in Hebei, but also thinks about the current thinking. The drama structure full of tension; the perfect fusion of music and drama; presence of beautiful and realistic stages, realizing the beautiful drama performance effect of the opera "Yan Yan Team". Of course, there are also deficiencies. For example, the actor's singing occasionally inconsistent with the subtitles, and some chorus momentum needs to be further strengthened. It can be said that the opera "Yan Yan Team" is a masterpiece of ideological, artistic, and ornamental.

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