About 150 million yuan will help revitalize Cantonese opera!Guangzhou Revitalization Cantonese Opera Foundation is 30 years old

Text/Yangcheng Evening News all -media reporter Huang Zhouhui

Figure/organizer provided

On September 20, the 30th anniversary celebration media meeting of the Guangzhou Drama Foundation (hereinafter referred to as the "Revitalizing Cantonese Opera Foundation") was held at the Cantonese Opera Museum.

The reporter from Yangcheng Evening News learned from the meeting that in the past 30 years, the Cantonese Opera Foundation has raised about 150 million yuan to help revitalize Cantonese opera.

On the 30th anniversary of the establishment, the Cantonese Opera Foundation will host a series of celebrations, which will host 8 free theater performances for 8 tickets, allowing the audience to share the results of the Cantonese opera revitalization.

Media meeting scene

National Local Opera Foundation

"In 1992, I was in the city of Guangzhou. At that time, there were three Cantonese opera groups in the city. The drama troupe was disabled, the people's hearts were scattered, the performances became less and less, and the audience became less and less. Reflecting difficulties. "

Li Ziliu, the former mayor of Guangzhou and the founding chairman of the Cantonese Opera Foundation of Guangzhou City, recalled that after investigation and research, the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government decided to set up a Cantonese Opera Foundation. This is the first foundation of more than 300 local opera dramas in the country -Guangzhou to revitalize the Cantonese Opera Foundation.

Li Ziliu, the President of the Capital Foundation of the Cantonese Opera Foundation in Guangzhou

"Many entrepreneurs, merchants and patriots in Hong Kong, Macau come to the mainland to invest in the mainland, and they are also willing to contribute to the revitalization and development of the traditional culture of Lingnan." Ni Huiying, Vice Chairman of Guangzhou Literary Federation, and the consultant of the Cantonese Opera Foundation of Guangzhou, 30 Over the past, the Cantonese Opera Foundation raised a total of about 150 million yuan. Among them, in addition to the support of government departments, donations from Hong Kong, Macau and mainland private enterprises account for about 70%.

Over the past 30 years, the Cantonese Opera Foundation has carried out the work in accordance with the charter, including: support the construction and art production of professional Cantonese opera performing group teams, support the masses of Cantonese opera music activities, support children to learn traditional art in Cantonese opera, and for groups and individuals in the Cantonese opera industry in the Cantonese opera industry. The social responsibility of public welfare charity organizations such as helping the crisis and helping disaster relief and relief, witnessing and participating in the development of cultural construction in Guangzhou, which has been affirmed and praised by all sectors of society.

The development of Guangzhou Cantonese opera business fruit

"In the past 30 years, the talents in the Guangzhou Cantonese opera industry have emerged, and the new repertoire has been continuously moved to the stage. The mass of the masses is increasingly active, and the next generation of the traditional culture of Lingnan has continued to increase. The Cantonese opera performance market has gradually entered a virtuous circle. The results of participation in construction under the leadership of the party committee and government. "

Yu Yong, the former chairman of the Guangzhou Cantonese theater and the vice chairman of the Guangzhou Drama Foundation of Guangzhou, was deeply proud of this.

Photo by Huang Zhouhui for the 30th Anniversary of the Foundation

In recent years, the Cantonese opera business in Guangzhou has achieved many achievements, of which:

In the big and strong Guangzhou drama creation incubation plan, 20 dramas have been incubated in 10 years, and 5 projects including "Diaolou" and "Liang Qichao" have been funded by the National Art Fund. ";

Create a famous Cantonese opera studio and set up Ou Kaiming and Li Junsheng Master Studio to play a role in demonstrating the role of Cantonese opera art masters. Through years of hard work, a total of 1 people in the Guangzhou Cantonese theater won the Chinese Drama Plum Award "Two Plums" and 8 people won the "Once Plum". Wait;

Implementing the boutique project of Cantonese opera film, "Wedding on the Criminal Field" has been ranked among the number of Chinese opera movie movie viewers and box office records in the three years since the premiere. Awards for the Film of the Opera;

It is also encouraged to develop the healthy development of the Civil Private Bureau. Hundreds of Cantonese opera communities are active in various urban and rural communities, laying a good mass foundation for the market.

Regarding the future development of the Cantonese opera business, Zhang Sheng, deputy director of the Guangzhou Culture, Radio, Film and Television Tourism Bureau, said that the bureau will continue to strengthen its support for the development of the Cantonese opera business, further improve the system of the art protection and inheritance of the Cantonese opera, and strive to build the "eight major projects", continue to promote the promotion The contemporary inheritance of Cantonese opera art, high standards planning to promote the relocation of the Cantonese theater and the opening of the museum, and make new achievements for the construction of a strong cultural city.

The results of the audience shared the results of revitalizing Cantonese opera

In 2022, the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Foundation ushered in the 30th anniversary of its establishment. The "30th Anniversary Celebration of the Cantonese Opera Foundation of Guangzhou" will be held in September to November this year.

The celebration is the guidance unit of the Propaganda Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Guangzhou Cultural and Broadcasting Bureau, and the Guangzhou Federation of Cultural Federation. Chen Jianhua, the leader of the leadership group of the Cantonese Opera Drama, served as the honorary director of the celebration preparatory committee, and hosted by the Guangzhou Revitalization Cantonese Opera Foundation.

Chairman Liu Wanzi introduced the celebration situation

According to Liu Wanzi, the former inspector of the Guangzhou Wenguang New Bureau and the chairman of the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Foundation, the event includes the holding of 8 theater performances, a donation of righteousness, auction and singing cultural charity activities. Thirty years of the special feature film, the 30th anniversary picture exhibition of the foundation of the foundation.

These eight performances will be held from September 25th to November at the Guangzhou Zhongshan Memorial Hall, Friendship Theater, the new site theater of the Guangzhou Cantonese theater, the Southern Theater, Jiangnan Grand Theater and other theaters. The audience can get tickets to the performance site with valid documents, respectively, and each person is limited to 4 photos, while the receipt is finished.

Performance schedule

Among them, the important project of the series of activities is the "Thirty Spring and Autumn Period Exhibition Wind" celebration party held at the Zhongshan Memorial Hall in Guangzhou on September 30.

Source | Yangcheng Evening News • Editor -in -chief of Yangcheng School | Li Li

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