Urgently how to appreciate Chinese opera, seeking specific methods!

Characteristics of Chinese Opera

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Chinese opera, is a comprehensive stage art style. It is characterized by a multitude of art forms, to a standard aggregated together, in *** with the nature of their respective personalities. These forms mainly include: poetry, music and dance. Poetry refers to its literature, music to its musical accompaniment, and dance to its performance. Also included are such aspects as stage art, costumes, and make-up. And these artistic factors in the opera are all for one purpose, i.e., to play the story; all follow one principle, i.e., beauty.

2, the opera, so-called song and dance storytelling

Chinese opera is characterized, in a nutshell, "so-called song and dance storytelling" (the late Qing scholar Wang Guowei said). Opera and drama, both of which belong to the theater, involve actors and actresses playing characters and using dialog and movement to express a storyline of a certain length. The difference is that opera uses musical dialogues and dance movements to express real life, i.e. the means of song and dance. It is also known as "singing, reading, acting and playing".

3, away from the form and take the meaning, get the idea and forget the form

Chinese opera expression of life, the use of a "take the idea and abandon the form" approach, such as Chinese painting of the landscape, with the vertical and horizontal strokes to reflect the life of all the beautiful things. Therefore, on the stage of opera, there is a red-faced Guan Yu, white-faced Cao Cao; there is a long song when crying, long-sleeved dance; there are no flowers and trees of spring color, no waves of the river.

4. Small stage, big stage

Chinese opera, as a kind of stage art, needs to face the contradiction between the smallness of the stage and the vastness of life. Opera doesn't use the principle of "the three equalities" to squeeze the life for performance as drama does. Instead, it uses virtual means to create flexible time and space, and accomplishes the portrayal of the vast world with the help of vivid performances of the actors and the imagination and understanding of the audience. Therefore, opera can create the illusion of darkness under the bright lights, and can harness horses on the empty stage.

Appreciation Method:See if there is

(I) Comprehensive Chinese opera is a highly comprehensive national art. This synthesis is not only manifested in its integration of various artistic disciplines (such as dance, acrobatics, etc.) and new ideas, but also reflected in its exquisite performance art. Various artistic factors are closely integrated with the performing arts, and all the functions of opera are realized through the performances of the actors. Among them, the organic composition of singing, reciting, acting and playing on the actors is the most concentrated and prominent manifestation of the comprehensive nature of opera. Singing refers to the technique of singing, which emphasizes the "correctness of the words"; Nian, that is, Nianbai, is the technique of recitation, which requires strict requirements, so-called "one thousand pounds of words and four taels of singing"; Do, refers to the technique of doing, which is the technique of stature and expression; Fighting refers to martial arts movements in the performance, which is a dance-oriented martial arts technique formed on the basis of the traditional Chinese martial arts. It is a combination of choreographed martial arts techniques formed on the basis of traditional Chinese martial arts. These four performing techniques are sometimes connected with each other, sometimes crossed with each other, and the way they are composed depends on the needs of the plot, but they are all united as a comprehensive whole, reflecting the beauty of harmony and full of the spirit of music (sense of rhythm). Chinese opera is a form of drama centered on the synthesis of singing, reciting, acting, and playing, which is rich in formal beauty.

(2) Virtualization Virtualization is the basic technique of reflecting life in opera. It refers to the performance of actors and actresses, using a deformed way to compare the real environment or object, in order to express life. The virtuality of Chinese opera is firstly manifested in the flexibility of dealing with stage time and space, the so-called "three or five steps to travel all over the world, six or seven people with millions of soldiers", "a thousand autumns of business in a moment, ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains in a square foot of land", which breaks through the "Three Uniforms" of the western theater. This breaks through the limitations of the western theater's "three uniforms" and "fourth wall". Secondly, it is in the specific stage atmosphere scheduling and actor's simulation of certain life actions, such as wind and rain, boat, horse, threading a needle, etc., which is more concentrated and distinctly reflects the virtual characteristics of the opera. Opera face painting is also a kind of virtual way. The virtuality of Chinese opera is not only the result of the limitations brought by the rudimentary stage and backward choreography technology of opera, but also and mainly the product of the accumulation of the national traditional aesthetic thought of pursuing the resemblance of God and writing God in shape. This is a kind of beauty creation. It greatly liberated the creativity of writers and stage artists and the artistic imagination of the audience, thus the aesthetic value of opera was greatly improved.

(3) Programming Program is the expression of opera reflecting life. It refers to the standardized and choreographed performance of life movements and is used repeatedly. Programs come directly or indirectly from life, but it is in accordance with certain norms of life after refining, generalization, beautification and formation. This condenses the efforts of artists from the past to the present, and it becomes the starting point for the new generation of actors to recreate their art, so that the art of opera performance can be passed on from generation to generation. There is a fixed format for closing doors, pushing windows, mounting horses, boarding boats, going up stairs, and so on, in opera performances. In addition to the performance program, opera has a certain program from the form of the script, the role of the line, music and singing, make-up and clothing, and other aspects of the program. Excellent artists are able to break through certain limitations of the program and create their own personalized standard art. The program is a model of beauty.