What is the performance program of Peking Opera?

The performing arts of Peking Opera are formed on the basis of inheriting and absorbing the traditional performing arts of local opera, and through further tempering and improvement. Opera is an art that uses song and dance to express life, so it must be programmatic. The expressive means of opera: singing, reading, doing, and playing all have outstanding programmaticity.

Peking Opera is a popular genre of opera throughout the country. After more than 200 years of improvement and evolution, it has its own complete set of performance system.

The basic form of Peking Opera performances is based on the "Four Gongs", namely: singing, reading, doing, and playing.

Singing: Most of the Peking Opera repertoire is mainly singing. The singing methods of each profession are different, and the singing styles of various genres are also different, but each profession has its own important "singing opera".

Some genres sing melodiously and tactfully, some have high-pitched voices, and some are gleeful and intermittent. But generally speaking, the singing of Peking Opera should be "correct and round". The skills of singing can be summarized as "words are born from love, and words are supplemented by words".

Nian Gong: That is, the Tao of Peking Opera. The Taoist confession of Peking Opera is very exquisite, and it is common for actors to recite the confession on stage, which is so one-dimensional and emotional.

Pronunciation is more demanding than singing in terms of intonation, volume, pause, and stress. For example, Yang Xiaolou, a Peking Opera celebrity, is famous for being good at reading white.

Exercises: including body and facial expressions. This is also the basic skill of Peking Opera actors. The actors use their body and footwork to express the artistic beauty of Peking Opera with their eyes and gestures.

Fighting: that is, martial arts, it is the combination of hands, eyes, body, and footwork. Martial arts have a variety of fixed programs and sets. A good martial arts actor can only mature after years of hard training.

Peking Opera is the quintessence of our country, which is gradually formed on the basis of two local operas, absorbing the tunes of Kunqu Opera and Northern Bangzi Opera, and combining the linguistic characteristics of Beijing.

In 1919, since the Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang performed in Japan for the first time, Peking Opera has gradually become known to the world.

Style: The standard and format of the form of stage performance. It is the basic vocabulary of opera to shape the stage image. The original meaning is a procedure, a French style.

"The standard of things is also reflected in every component of the stage art of opera.

Traditional opera requires the actors' every move on the stage to be stylized, and each programmed action has certain content and technical requirements, such as "Qiba means that the general will appear", "horse" shows horseback riding, and "walking" shows night galloping.

The characteristics of the program are rhythmic, which conforms to the formal beauty laws of symmetry, harmony, diversity and unity; the second is normative, relatively stable, and can be widely used for different characters and repertoire; The third is virtuality, which extracts the most typical factors and exaggerates them, abandons the natural form, and makes people understand its meaning by inducing the audience's imagination.

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Features of stylized performances.

Since the 50s of the 20th century, the slogan of "opera learning from drama" has been put upside down, and it is precisely that drama should draw nourishment from national opera and rap art.

There should be a principle for drama directors to intervene in opera: they must not distort the aesthetics of traditional opera. After the drama director entered the opera, there was a situation of useless work in the road of more than 20 years, that is, "anti-help" - not paying attention to the characteristics of opera and failing to recognize the aesthetic principles of opera.

Only paying attention to the ideological expression of the script, and using lights, costumes, Taoism, effects, and other means to create the feeling of historical drama, the result can only be destroyed and weakened the ontology of the opera. The pace of reform of opera and filial piety opera should be determined by the characteristics of opera itself, and Huangmei opera is different from Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera.

There is a difference between traditional art and modern art, and we can only help traditional art to be more beautified, not modernize it. Traditional art is beautiful because of its tradition.