Fan Ji and his love with Chu Zhuangwang Tan Wei: a drama that engraves great beauty and beauty in your heart.

▲ Tan Wei's "Chu Zhuangwang" stills. Xiangyun Impression Su Guoguang Photo courtesy

On May 9th, 10, Chu Zhuangwang, the original national drama of Hubei Opera and Dance Theatre, appeared in the "20 18 Opera Festival of the National Grand Theatre", which was full of rhythmic music and ups and downs of opera stories, making this "Three Years of Silence" a blockbuster. If you don't fly for three years, you will fly to the sky. "The stage image of overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period is extremely vivid. Just a week ago, another national drama directed by Tan Wei, the director of this opera, Shi Guangnan's Regret for the Past, which was adapted from Lu Xun's literature, also entered the Beijing stage and won the audience's love in poly theatre. Such intensive director operas are rare in China opera circles. As a professor at the Central Academy of Drama, he advocates constant stage practice all the year round, which is the best support for Chen. What most people don't know is that most of the current opera directors in China are drama directors. Knowing music and reading the score has become the biggest shortcoming of China's opera production, and director Chen is only one of the few directors in China who can read the score. Therefore, one of the biggest characteristics of watching director Chen's opera is that he will not cut off the music at will because of the plot. The actor in "Regret for the Past" especially likes his play.

Just be an excellent opera director all your life.

Tan Wei said in an interview. Indeed, anyone who knows Tan Wei knows that in Tan Wei's world, there are only two kinds of people: those who love opera and those who have no chance to go to the opera. She is a native of Wu * * *, who has directed traditional Chinese opera for more than twenty years. She is a director who is fascinated by opera in the eyes of students and peers. He has directed the first small theater opera in China, such as Farewell to Cambridge, red river valley and Su Wu, and won many national prizes, such as the Wenhua Award of the Ministry of Culture and the "Five Ones" Project Award of Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China. He has also cooperated with Wuhan Chu Theatre twice and directed Tea in March and Wanli Tea Ceremony, but all of them are opera works.

Now, she finally came back. Together with Hubei Opera and Dance Theatre, she created an epic Jingchu opera, Chu Zhuangwang. If there is a drama that shows the beauty of Chu, it must be Chu Zhuangwang; If there is an opera that sings the voice of Jingchu, it must be Chu Zhuangwang; If there is an opera that reproduces the rise of Chu, it must be Chu Zhuangwang; If there is an opera about the love of the King of Chu, it must be Chu Zhuangwang!

However, it is almost impossible to integrate these four items into the same opera. However, Tan Wei did it with his love for Jingchu, his hometown, and his persistence in traditional Chinese opera. Many viewers sighed after watching the play: "Although it was more than two thousand years apart, it still hit people's hearts." She not only enchanted the audience in her hometown, but also sent this epic masterpiece to the National Grand Theatre, the highest hall of China's national performing arts. On May 9th 10, the opera "Chu Zhuangwang" was staged at the 20 18 Opera Festival of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, which brought a great opera full of Jingchu folk melodies to the audience in Beijing and won their love.

Honghu Red Guards planted the seeds of Chinese opera.

In the early 1970s, the film Honghu Red Guards was released. Chen, who is still in primary school, watched it for seven days. When she saw the third day, she was able to sing from beginning to end. /kloc-take the college entrance examination at the age of 0/8, with a score of 600 out of 520 for Chen Wei. Her father hoped that she could go to Wu Da University and study finance, but out of longing for the stage, she secretly entered the director department of the Central Academy of Drama behind her father's back. For decades, Sister Wuhan, who yearned for the stage and walked out of Hubei, has now become the most active director in the current drama industry. Looking back on the past, Tan Wei said with emotion: "It can be said that the Honghu Red Guards planted the seeds of Chinese opera in my heart."

In the late 1990s, foreign operas seized the domestic stage, and Tan Wei began to think about how to make more people accept domestic original operas. In 200 1 year, she led a group of students to rehearse China's first small theater opera, Farewell to Cambridge. I didn't expect that this drama has been performed for 15 years, and it is one of the few "longevity dramas" in the industry. The courage of the first "crab eater" is admirable, but she thinks it is due to her personality.

The five-year dormancy was a blockbuster with Chu Zhuangwang.

20 12, Chen Weidi got Chu Zhuangwang's script at one time. "After reading the first page, it does it one brace up. From its literary description, style and lyrics, we can see that this is a drama script, which has profound cultural background and accurate characters. Art pays great attention to the first feeling, which makes me feel creative at once. However, how can we let everyone see the beautiful scenery, songs and people in Chen Wei's heart through this drama?

Tan Wei didn't start shooting easily, but spent several years playing this big game in his mind. After Chen Wei devoted himself to creation, he led the creative team to Jingzhou, Yicheng and other places for many times, visited the site of Du Ying in Chu State, visited the Hubei Provincial Museum, and asked the historians for advice. In the process of collecting folk songs, Tan Wei was deeply shocked by Chu culture, which brought her rich creative impulse and surprise.

"I hope that the Chu Zhuangwang presented on the stage is an epic national opera with ancient vicissitudes and extraordinary momentum, and it is also a colorful and amazing Chu culture opera." Tan Wei said so, and she did the same. She used this drama to bring Jingchu Fenghua to the stage. After five years of tempering and gathering famous artists, Tan Wei showed the audience a magnificent picture of Chu culture through unique means such as music and dance beauty. Chu culture elements on the stage can also be seen everywhere. Chu Zhuangwang E Guan Dai Bo, Fan Ji and his concubines are all wearing deep clothes. The whole stage background has bronze color and texture, which looks quaint and heavy, and the changing lines can also see the shadow of Chu lacquerware. Fan Ji missed Chu Zhuangwang in the palace, and there was a huge staghorn crane in the corner of the stage. In her drumming scene, the shape of the golden drum is reminiscent of the famous tiger and bird drum in Chu culture.

The most storytelling opera director.

Chu Zhuangwang is a character. Tan Wei mobilized all artistic means, trying to present a comprehensive three-dimensional image of "Chu Zhuangwang" for the audience, and told the story of "Chu Zhuangwang" to the hearts of the audience:

"In this drama, there are not only the pomp of Jin Ge's iron horse and the prestige of life in Taiwan, but also the struggle of intrigue and life and death. There are both blockbuster feats and love where you will go. There are real historical figures, such as Chu Zhuangwang and Sun Shuaio, and fictional dramatic figures, such as Jing Ge and Chu Er. They merge into two clues, which are organically intertwined. Whether it is "The Court of Life and Death" or the love at first sight between Chu Zhuangwang and Fan Ji, it is to highlight Chu Zhuangwang's last blockbuster feat. More importantly, he chose to stop fighting after gaining hegemony, which is the most important ideological core of Chu Zhuangwang's famous history. "