The decline of traditional Chinese opera among local contemporary young people, why?

First, there are too few new dramas suitable for young audiences. With the progress of the times, the age structure of opera audience is also changing. Ten years or decades later, the audience of opera will be young people today. However, for a long time, traditional dramas such as Wang Baochuan, Four Holy Books, Golden Branches, and Sun An's Moving Books, etc. Or often put on so-called new historical dramas. I can't say that these plays don't have its value, but at least in this changing era, for a new generation of young people, the value it embodies has been minimal, or it is no longer suitable for the tastes of young people now. Why can the large-scale modern eyebrow drama "Get Up Late" performed by Qinqiang Academy be performed continuously 100? Why can it be warmly welcomed by college students? Because it is close to our lives, especially the lives of young people! Why did the modern Qin Opera "Guo" rehearsed in Yi Sushe, xi successfully perform 120 in just a few months? Why can you get the attention of CCTV? Because it is the artistic embodiment of the true story that happened around us! From this, we can easily see that young people favor good dramas that are close to social life, suitable for their own tastes and "tell the stories of ordinary people". However, such a good play, geometry? Second, singing is old and the rhythm is slow. How can young people who can nag for a few minutes in one sentence accept old lyrics and pursue new trends with modern fast pace? How can young people who are used to listening to pop music like the single accompaniment music of "Bangzi plus Banhu"? Taking A Late Rose as an example, it is refreshing: singing is no longer the old-fashioned babbling, but the emotional talk of the characters; Accompaniment is no longer the old tune of a single bangzi and banhu, but seems to have a symphony flavor. Can you not like it? The Beijing Opera Symphony Concert and the electronic music accompaniment of Shaanxi Opera are all good attempts! Third, a highly stylized performance. Stylization is the most obvious in Beijing opera. Teacher Xie Yanchun once said: "The platformization and stylization of China traditional opera is a sign of its maturity and peak, and it is also a sign of its decline." A high degree of stylization affects the actors' performance on the stage, which seems to be "doing" the play, rather than playing the role, giving young people a "fake" feeling. How can a performance that is too dull and lifeless attract contemporary young audiences? Fourth, the visual effect is poor. The simple scene of "two chairs and one table" in Chinese opera is not popular with young people who are used to modern singing and dancing. Can some factors of modern stage art be applied to China traditional opera? The answer is yes. Wang Xiling, a performing artist of Henan Opera, who is known as the "Golden Boy of Henan Opera", once put modern disco into the opera performance for the first time in the scene of "Capturing Saburo alive" of Henan Opera, and with the fantastic laser light effect, it aroused strong repercussions among young audiences. Like the lotus in Huangmei Opera "Xi Shi Huan Sha" and the snow-capped mountain in Qin Opera "A Treasure Love", they are no longer rigid background paintings, but sets performed by actors, which give people a novel feeling visually and have been greatly appreciated by modern audiences. There is another important reason why young people don't like going to the theater-they don't understand. Although there are subtitles now, watching subtitles will inevitably affect the audience's watching the actors' performances. Can you sing in Mandarin while maintaining the local characteristics of various operas? Huangmei opera, isn't it? Who can say that it has no local characteristics of Anhui?

First of all, I personally think that the respondents' two concepts are enough to explain why traditional opera is not optimistic at present, which is from the perspective of innovation and singing performance of opera.