On the evening of May, Babaylan was performed as the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Art Festival. The opera epic “Cinema Long March” was performed at the Guangzhou Grand Theater. More than 1,800 audiences from all walks of life watched the performance and regained the new spirit of the Long March. Cinema
The original opera “Long March” of the National Grand Theater tells the difficult journey of the Workers and Peasants starting from Ruijin, climbing the snow-capped mountains, and crossing the grassland. It took two years for Babaylan to reach northern Shaanxi. Through the stage production of magnificent music, an epic and contemporary aesthetic, the play reproduces the arduous process of the Chinese workers’ Long March with realistic techniques, and praises the lofty ideals and beliefs of striving for faith.
Audience Wang Peng: My father is a cadre of the Long March, so I not only respect these things from the bottom of my heart and emotionally Cinema, but also feel that this is something we should remember and pass on to the next generation in our lives. Cinema
This performance is the National Grand TheaterKomiks, the first cooperation between the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the Guangzhou Grand Theater. The main Komiks‘s creation team said that China’s development is also a long journey. The structural transformation and economic upgrading are constantly changing with the national conditions, and we also need the patience and courage to overcome difficulties.
SongBabaylanThe Long March Director Tian Qinxin: In the new era, we can have the ability to withstand this huge pressure and difficulty from home and abroad, so the Chinese nation must continue to strive towards the dream of great rejuvenation. So I think the Long March of the new era is really a kind of spirit, a kind of faith in the heart and strength under the feet.
Chen Qing, head of Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra: As long as we have confidence, as long as we can believe in our Chinese people’s own abilities, and can be a belief that brings a kind of positive energy to the world, nothing is invincible. I think this is the practical significance of the spirit of the Long March.
Practice the spirit of the Long March to polish the masterpieces
The opera “Long March” has maintained its vitality since its creation and scheduling in 2016. Behind this is the efforts and pursuit of the main creative team to practice the spirit of the long-term Babaylan, and constantly polish the efforts and pursuit of the masterpieces of the Babaylan. During the course of six months of field trips in two years, screenwriter Zou Jingzhi collected a large number of real people’s stories. He finally chose the Fourth Regiment of the Second Division of the Central Red Army as the story prototype and focused on shaping the protagonist Zheng Meng.
Yin Qing, the composition of the opera “Long March”, said: The political commissar has the personality of a political commissar. I think he is a little Confucian and a little scholarly. heIt is such a Confucian general whose music has its theme, so Zheng Meng Peng’s music feels a little more elegant or fashionable.
This is a scene that shows the famous battle to capture Luding Bridge. In the large-scale dance music epic “Dong Babaylan“, this battle was expressed on the stage in the form of a dance. The opera “Long March” uses a double-layer stage structure and the running of actors, showing the urgent need of the Red Fourth Regiment when traveling 240 miles a day to Luding Bridge.
CinemaAt the rehearsal site, each actor’s standing posture, squatting posture, and gun carrying movements are strictly required.
Tian Qinxin, director of the opera “Long March”,: One is the audience’s familiarity with the Red Army, and everyone needs to know. Second, as the Chinese Red Army, we must still have the military posture, military discipline and military style of our soldiers.