What is the historical background of the birth of Shanghai Opera?

19 1 1 Shanghai Beach entered various entertainment places in Shanghai. At first, it was mainly singing, without makeup, and soon it all resumed the form of opera. With the increase of class clubs, the scale of troupe actors has also expanded to about 10.

Subsequently, Shao and others, the actors of this beach, took the lead in announcing the abandonment of some obscene scenes in this beach drama, claiming that this kind of drama was to improve this beach and renamed it "Qu Shen".

Qu Shen achieved rapid development and edited a new fashion drama "Divorce Complaint". The play was conceived by Shanghai civilized opera actor Fan Zhiliang according to an event in Shanghai, and rehearsed by actors Liu Ziyun and Ding Shaolan. The plot is based on real life, so the actors' costumes are basically suits and cheongsam.

From the 1920s to 1930s, influenced by other forms of drama, Qu Shen resumed the form of standing performance. Because of the participation of civilized drama, that is, early drama actors, the performance is curtain system, and the scene is painted with soft cloth. During this period, Qu Shen's performers adapted a large number of plays that performed civilization, including those originated from Tanci, such as Jade Dragonfly, Pearl Tower and Meng Lijun.

Later, the actors performed a large number of dramas with news, current affairs and movie stories as the themes, such as Huang Huiru and Lu Genrong, Ruan's suicide, the secluded valley and the sister flowers, which later became the traditional repertoire of the mid-term Shanghai Opera.

The performance of this kind of drama makes Qu Shen gradually adopt the performance form close to civilized drama and drama, such as adopting novel scenery, strengthening lighting effect and music.

Most of the dramas in this period are based on urban life, and the characters in the drama wear suits and cheongsam, so everyone also calls it "suit and cheongsam drama". Cheongsam brought a large number of urban audiences to Shanghai Opera and had an important influence on later Shanghai Opera.

In the early 1930 s, the new fashion drama entered a glorious period and entered the theaters, playgrounds and radio stations in Shanghai. In these ways, it has become a well-known drama in Shanghai.

Qu Shen Opera Association had more than 200 members when it was founded. 1934 was reorganized into Qushen Opera Research Association with 395 members. By 1938, about 30 groups had applied for songs, including Wenyue Society, Xinya Society and Ten Boards.

Some groups that applied for songs changed their names to "Troupe", such as Wen Bin Troupe and Shi Jia Troupe, and the scale of the clubs also grew from more than 10 to twenty or thirty people, or even forty or fifty people. They successively held a series of theatrical troupes in the Central Grand Theatre, successfully performed a number of dramatic suits and cheongsam plays, and created an urban drama in Shanghai, which timely reproduced the living conditions of modern urbanites and their joys and sorrows, attracting more people's attention.

1938, at the Greater China Theatre, Shi Jia Troupe changed its performance from "Shi Chunxuan" and presented a Shanghai drama "Thunderstorm" adapted from the drama of the same name by modern playwright and drama educator Cao Yu. Starring Jin Gengquan, Shi Chunxuan, Shao Hefeng, Yu Lintong, Shi, Shi Chune and others.

The following year, Guangxin Troupe, led by Xie Hongyuan, Yang Yunxia, Yu Lintong and Xia Fulin, also performed the play in the Oriental Theatre. Others, such as Wen Bin, Wenjing and Shanghai Opera Association, also competed to perform the play in the performance.

In the early 1940s, Qu Shen Pictorial published an article introducing the origin, evolution, development and performance of Qu Shen, and suggested that Qu Shen be officially changed to "Shanghai Opera".

194 1 When the Shanghai Opera Society was founded, it premiered Broken Blue Bridge, which localized foreign dramas. Playwright Gogo and director Yan, respectively, played the leading roles, and their performances drew lessons from the artistic expression techniques of movies and dramas, giving the audience a brand-new feeling. The plot of the play is sad and tortuous, and many performances have been welcomed by the audience.

The play abandoned the screen system, adopted a fixed script, changed the stage soft cloth screen into a three-dimensional set, changed the makeup into gouache, and used lighting effects. This move was followed by Shanghai troupes, which made the whole stage look brand-new. Since then, the performance advertisements of Shanghai Qu Shen Class have been officially promoted in the name of Shanghai Opera.

After the 1940s, under the influence of drama and movies, Shanghai Drama Club established a choreography system, focusing on portraying characters in performances and exploring the organic combination of singing, acting and singing. In the aspect of singing art, there are many schools of Shanghai Opera, such as Yang, Xiao, Shi Chunxuan, Xiao, Xie Hongyuan, Yang Feifei, Ding Shie, Wang Pan and so on.

19 At the end of the 20th century, there were many popular operas in Shanghai, but in the end, only Shanghai Opera took root in Shanghai because of its folk origin, the ability to express real life, euphemistic music and beautiful tunes, and became the only local opera in Shanghai.

After the founding of New China, Shanghai Opera entered a new period of reform and development. 1953, Shanghai People's Shanghai Theatre, the predecessor of Shanghai Theatre, was established. At the same time, Shanghai has also established troupes that mainly perform Shanghai Opera, such as Yihua, Diligence, Diligence, Aihua and Changjiang.

Actors, directors, musicians and stage artists in Shanghai Opera have adapted some traditional dramas and put emphasis on modern dramas. Because modern drama is closer to people's real life, less stylized and easy to express urban customs, it has been warmly praised and praised by the audience.

At this stage, a large number of plays reflecting history and real life appeared on the stage of Shanghai Opera, which played an important role in improving the musical singing ability of Shanghai Opera, expressing the director's level and bringing forth the new in stage art.

At the same time, the choreographers, musicians and other workers of Shanghai Opera use various creative techniques to constantly reform and develop aria on the basis of tradition, and also creatively use single board, two eyes, duet and other forms. Many tunes have been discovered, giving full play to their potential of expressing life and feelings, thus increasing the artistic charm of Shanghai Opera.

The stage set of Shanghai Opera is originally a table and a chair on the stage. By the end of the 1920s, the stage began to have a set, and the living room, landscape, countryside, thatched cottage and embroidered room were all painted on cloth.

In the early 1940s, Shanghai Opera began to use three-dimensional stage devices instead of soft curtain sets, and began to use lighting effects to make the actors' performances and stage rhythms more colorful.

On the road of development, Shanghai Opera absorbed and borrowed various musical elements, combined with its own characteristics, paid equal attention to singing and dancing, and created prosperous and gorgeous characteristics, which not only brought into play the advantages of graceful and euphemistic traditional singing of Shanghai Opera, but also made the audience feel its beautiful artistic charm from generation to generation, and finally made it a well-known drama in China Drama Garden.

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