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"Blade a Son at the Gate" Mu Guiying is extraordinary and her supporting roles are also outstanding. (Photo provided by the organizer)

It has only been more than half a month since the Wu Opera scene where three "white magnolias" are gathered in a short play. The special performance of the short play that Chen Lili, who participated in the final review of the 32nd China Drama Plum Blossom Awards, set off a "Wu Opera Storm" in the theater in Shanghai. After acting in "Mu Guiying: Killing the Son at the Gate", the atmosphere in the venue was cheerful and warm. When "The Legend of the White Snake·Shui Dou" started, the audience was in high spirits. Seeing the heroine Chen Lili both civil and martial arts, and the actors on the stage showed their passionate martial arts skills, the audience was in high spirits. Everyone doesn't know that the neat and light-looking "White Snake" on the stage absorbs oxygen and takes medicine in the side curtain during the transition. When she rushed back to the stage, she immediately became the "White Snake" in full condition, and performed the most anticipated play of the day with "Xiaoqing" and "Xu Xian" who were of equal importance - "The Legend of the White Snake·Broken Bridge", which is known as "the No. 1 Bridge in the World".

At the end of the performance, excited audiences flocked to the front stage, and the crowd was unwilling to disperse. Lou Sheng, a young actor who played Chen Lili in the first-hand version of "Broken Bridge", said: "In our Wu Opera, the singing performance must be sang to make the audience feel aftertaste, and the fighting performance must be beaten to the audience's heart. Whether the audience comes or not can sit or not, it depends on whether the actors are working hard on the stage." Four years ago, when he participated in the Plum Blossom Awards, he said: "I was lifted here by the entire opera troupe." Now, Chen Lili's "Plum Blossom" short play once again allows the audience to see "a troupe to a actor's support", and the "green leaves" and the heroine competed with "real kung fu". Such a performance scene with high spirits and full of life energy is urgently needed in today's opera performance market.

The inheritance of "Picking Plum"

This Wu Opera play special show has rich levels and distinct colors. "Torture Tizhuo" is a singing opera. The heroine is an orphan who was wronged and imprisoned. A long singing style tells her unfortunate fate, which is a bitter Qingyi opera. The highlight of the Peking Opera "Slaying the Son at the Gate" is Lao Sheng, focusing on the ethics of family and country. Wu Opera "Slaying the Son at the Gate" has a lively and fierce folk color. When a state incident and family affairs are concerned, the highlight of the whole play falls on the strange woman Mu Guiying, who is not bound by etiquette and law. The grass-roots girl has strategy and true temperament. In order to save her favorite Yang Zongbao, she dared to challenge Yang Yanzhao, and said enthusiastically and generously: "You don't love him, I love him." The performance of the Dan actor mixed the cool sword and the bright and playful Huadan. Many types of dramas in "Broken Bridge", and the characteristics of Wu Opera are lies in its extremely bright rhythm. The white snake and green snake appear in the snake steps, which are charming and fierce, and have the evil spirit that is not available in the performances of Beijing and Kunqu. Mei Lanfang said to the famous Wu Opera artist Chen Meijuan in 1954: "Your "Broken Bridge" is better than me, I can't walk on the snake." This is not entirely a humble word. This opera is both sing and writing, and there is a saying that "singing the white snake to death, being a green snake to death, and falling to death Xu Xian to death". The three actors' figures change in complex shapes, combining martial arts opera with modern dance, and several sets of gorgeous and dazzling styles require tacit cooperation among the actors.

The role span of the three-part drama is large, and the performance needs to span different female actors. The greater difficulty lies in singing across three Wu Opera voices: "Torture and Ti Lao" is a random play that uses a large number of midrange areas, "Zheng Zi" is a high-pitched Hui opera with the tone, and the "Broken Bridge" is a sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung-focused sung

Chen Lili's performance pressure not only comes from the requirements of stage skills, but more because these short plays embody the efforts of generations of Wu Opera people. Chen Meilan, a famous Wu Opera actor who won the Plum Blossom Award for the first time, was "The Legend of the White Snake", and "Torture and Pearl of the Son" and "Blacking the Son at the Gate" were her "Second Plum". Over the past 20 years, she has personally taught these dramas to generations of students. Yang Xiayun won the Plum Blossom Award in 2015. Her short plays are "The Water Fighting Broken Bridge" and "The Sword of the Son at the Gate" and "The Great Break of the Sky Gate". Lou Sheng participated in the Plum Blossom Awards, and "Broken Bridge" is also one of the memorials. Now Chen Lili is on the plum blossom stage. Just as Lou Sheng summarized, performing these sub-shows is a report on the inheritance of Wu Opera.

The green leaves on the platform holding up red flowers

When Saturday's performance ended, an elderly audience sighed all the way: "It's not easy for "Broken Bridge" to be so good! Of course, the 'White Snake' must be well sung, but Xu Xian and 'Green Snake' must be well matched so that this play can stand. This troupe is amazing!" Compared to the result of "Praise Review", the more heated discussion caused by the short drama of Zhejiang Wu is that an opera troupe can have such a neat style, with red flowers and green leaves all over the hall.

More than half a month ago, Huang Qinghua, vice president of Zhejiang Wu, made a bold statement in the backstage of Wanping Theater: The troupe cannot be popular one or two, and a group of people will become popular. The day before Chen Lili's performance, Yan Lixin, deputy secretary of Zhejiang Wu, changed his "low-key" expression: There are no actors on stage. As long as they go on stage, all the actors have ambition and aspirations. The pair of clowns in "Torture and Tie" performed meticulously and performed the warmth of the little characters very down-to-earth. There are many characters appearing in "The Gate of Killing the Son", and whether the supporting role can withstand the scene directly affects the completion of the whole scene. Yang Yanzhao is stubborn; Jiao Zan is naughty; Meng Liang is introverted; She Taijun is a majestic grandmother, and her kindness is deep; Zhao Defang has a calm princely demeanor; even Mu Gua, Mu Guiying's young follower, is also a little bandit's motivated appearance - at first glance, the supporting roles on the stage are vivid and vivid. Zhao Defang and Meng Liang's actors are both winners of the New Magnolia Drama Award, but the actors do not steal the show or show off their skills, and focus on the appearance of the characters. When it comes to "Water Fight", there are extras in martial arts dramas on the stage. Everyone performs every skill and action as his life role, and everyone bursts out with an unstoppable spirit. This is not to win a few praises from one or two good actors, but to create an overall impression in the theater, allowing the audience to feel the passionate and eager vitality.

The passionate vitality of Wu Opera is very important for opera and plum blossom awards. ( Wenhui Po reporter Liu Qing)

[Editor in charge: Tang Wei]