How to inherit the development of traditional opera

How to Succeed and Develop Traditional Opera

According to the viewpoint of Marxist dialectical materialism philosophy, the fundamental basis for the existence of anything is development, which is also the embodiment of its vitality. As a traditional art, opera must develop if it wants to survive in the society, and there are two ways of development, one is the replacement of the old by the new, and the other is the change of the old itself. Opera is a classical art that has been passed down for hundreds of years. It is obviously unrealistic to replace the old with the new, so the best way is to change the old, that is, to reform. Then how to reform it, the first to inherit, and ultimately the development.

First, let's talk about inheritance, inheritance should return to the original essence. What is the essence of opera, or in other words, what is the definition of opera? I am afraid that no one can explain this problem perfectly. Then let's look at its characteristics first. First of all, opera is a play, what is a play, is the plot, the plot, that is, the conflict, and then again simple, is the struggle of the characters, from which it can be seen that it has the general characteristics of the general drama, that is, the synthesis of the art, the concentration of the conflict, the feedback of the audience, the creation of the irreversibility, and so on. Then it is the song, the song is the singing, we all know that the significant feature of opera is to sing with characters and push the plot, so another significant characteristic of opera is the unique art of singing. Therefore, simply put, the essence of opera is character action with music as the main creative technique. With the essence, we know how to inherit it. The first thing to be inherited is the singing style, including the plate style, the return rhyme, the return rut, such as the Beijing Opera in the Xipi Erhuang-based, the original plate, the scattered plate, shaking the plate, the guide plate, the dragon, the touch plate and so on, this is the root of the art of opera, can not be discarded, and then is the form of the performance, the theater focuses on the comprehensive beauty, that is, the character's beauty of the voice, the beauty of the figure, the band's beauty of the music, the beauty of the construction of the stage. To give a simple example, when an actor plays two different roles, the form of the same action actor can never be the same, such as the common use of the Peking Opera, the picking of the skidding car in the Gao Favors and the group of Huang Gai is different from each other, Gao Favors up the full hegemony to show that the young king is eager to make a success of his work, and Huang Gai up the half-hegemony to show that the old generals of the old age. Every move and every style is left behind through the continuous practice of the predecessors, all are valuable things, which need to be inherited.

Then look at the development. With the development after the inheritance, there is fresh vigor. Development will have to innovate, innovation old inevitably have to adapt to the new environment, which is determined by the general public, because they are the creators of history. Having said that, many people have a misunderstanding that we have to cater to the tastes of all and constantly adjust to innovation, which is not true, especially in the current market-dominated environment, it is more important to have a correct understanding. Our innovation, based on our audience should be our audience, not all the audience, the development, first of all, from the audience of the opera, adding some popular elements of today's times, so that the audience of the opera after the test qualified to begin to promote, if a single-mindedly in order to chase the market, arbitrarily tampering with the art will lead to the intrinsic audience can not be retained, the mass of people do not have a market for the results.

I hope my answer can help you.