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The reform and innovation of the Lulu opera

To enhance the cultural taste of the art of Lulu opera, strengthen the reform of the script repertoire. An era has an era of unique culture and art, Lu Opera's aesthetic concept, performance content, artistic means are in the agricultural era of production, life and development, reflecting the local people's aesthetic interest and value orientation. For those obsolete forms of expression, it can be changed according to the requirements of the development of the times, to enhance its cultural taste and enrich its cultural connotation, so as to make it more adaptable to the modernized environment, while in terms of content and form, it should strive to be closer to the masses and social life.

Early Lu Opera performances are relatively simple, basically singing a dance, singing a folk tune, dancing folk songs and dances, dance movements are generally not combined with the plot. Performances generally do not have a fixed line, but to temporary string words, sets of words from the compilation. Lu Opera when the script repertoire such as "Qin Xuemei", "Hugh Clove", "small resignation store" and so on, whether the structure of the script or the language has been stuck in the level of folk rap literature; the creation of the script due to the creators of the cultural quality is not high, so the cultural content is not high, and the social impact of the naturally limited. From the middle of the 1950s, Lu Opera realized the change of the audience's aesthetic demand, and also made some efforts to try to make the cadres, intellectuals and outsiders accept. In the rehearsal of "Liu Hulan", "Sister Jiang" and other new plays borrowed many of the means of the opera, but also in the performance of the trial of Mandarin speech. Especially "Li Qingzhao" and "the new white snake" rehearsals, Lu opera in the singing characteristics and language characteristics have made great progress, thus enhancing the cultural taste of Lu opera.

To cultivate the reserve talents of LU opera, strengthen the theoretical research of LU opera. Looking back, hefei city lu theater first batch of actors are by the old society troupe of famous artists and local literary troupe of new literary workers, old and new artistic talent on the same stage, had performed the sensational provincial "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai". Playwright Ms. Hou Lu frankly said, "Now our opera exists the phenomenon of 'three less and one weak', and so does the Lu Opera." The so-called "three less and one weak", that is, fewer young actors, fewer male actors, fewer sharp actors, the quality of the whole team of young actors is weak. We are not completely devoid of talent, but some outstanding actors will slowly lose their sharpness and talent because of the lack of good plays for a long time. For newcomers to the stage who have just graduated from the theater school, they should also make up for their mistakes, ask professional teachers to tutor them, strengthen their basic training, and choose plays suitable for them to perform in public.

To expand the publicity of the Lu opera, and strive for young audience. The cause of opera not only need to specialize in the art of performing actors, but also need to have the audience who know and love the opera. The cultivation of opera talent is admittedly important, but the audience training is also a problem that can not be ignored. Audience shrinkage will constrain the development of opera, many areas have appeared in the theater without the market, the hero has no place to use the embarrassment. Happily, anhui television "about flower opera house" program group in lu opera publicity, promotion up and down a lot of effort, thus expanding the audience group of lu opera. To strive for media support, open a variety of Lu opera program, to all aspects of society to pass the influence of Lu opera. At the same time actively promote the Lu opera into the streets, into the campus, into the work of teaching materials, so that more people are familiar with the Lu opera to understand the Lu opera.

Establishment of Lulu opera data research room. Since the founding of the play to collect and save, including oral, editing and directing sound and beauty and actors, staged date of the archives, especially for the original singing to record the score, to have "masterpiece" of the old actors to record the video, to learn the art of hard work of the young people to record audio and video, record their growth course. The purpose of establishing the research room is to preserve the historical remains of the Lu opera, with physical text strung together its development trajectory, to provide research topics for reform and innovation, to guide the protection and development.