Is it possible for traditional Chinese theater to evolve from opera to musical?

The emergence of the musical is a historical inevitability. In the 19th and 20th centuries, when mass entertainment was developing, the musical was not as obscure as the opera, nor as dull as the dance drama, but reflected the aesthetics of the time, and was the most commercialized of the several types of stage plays. Musicals were an unparalleled and unrepeatable success.

The same stage play, why musicals feel so different, music is one aspect, after all, musicals in the singing from our daily listening to pop songs a little closer, of course, some also have a high pitch, or more difficult to sing the voice, but compared to the opera, the more popular a drop.

Why have we grown rusty on the opera form? Before that, because of the Cultural Revolution ah ~ anti-Japanese time although no conditions, but people and objects are in the first ten years of the Cultural Revolution plus the Cultural Revolution, twenty years. The vandalism and looting destroyed a number of things; the criticism and denunciation destroyed a number of people. China's culture was broken in those years. The form of opera was not wiped out, but it took a big hit. When my father was a child, he was caught up in the Cultural Revolution. Who dared to listen to opera when he was a child? It was a tumor of the old society. Waiting for the reform and opening up, a hundred things are waiting to happen, what was the first thing to listen to at that time? Michael Jackson, Teresa Teng, Zheng Zhihua. So my dad doesn't listen to the theater, and my grandpa is fascinated by it.

That's a bit of a long way to go, so let's get back to it. Speaking of theater costumes and sets. Ancient Greek theaters were built on mountains, and when the festival of the god of wine came around, everyone hooted and hollered and ran over to see it, and hooted and hollered and ran back. Theater is impossible to move, you no longer cattle, you have to come over. China or else, people under the nine streams, to run the hall will, with a large number of props running around inconvenient and unsafe, the old Buddha said, clamor you into the palace to sing a song, you say to others, I'm sorry that theater is fixed, you want to look at their own to it. People shall not peel your skin? You have to come over to serve. A table and two chairs is certainly simple, but in different plays represent different scenes, as in Chinese paintings, far-reaching mood, the most flavorful is the white space.

A long time ago, I saw an interview on TV, I can't remember the details, I only remember that the aunt performed an opera in the little lady opening the door, hand movements, eye changes, at that time I was mesmerized. And Peter Brook really kind of appreciated our country's opera. A few days ago, I saw a question on Zhihu, Chinese painting and oil painting which painting is better, this simply can not be compared together, if the real opera set props realistically dealt with, but rather incongruous, there is the effect of adding to the snake.

Musical theater every year in the new, but the opera, the other are not mentioned, the opera is now eating the old, even if there are some and now in line with the opera, a lot of just in the original opera on the basis of the drastic change, I rarely see any new repertoire.

But I'm still positive about the future alignment of the opera. I have a lot of friends around me who are already opera buffs in their twenties, and to be honest, Guo Degang has made a significant contribution to the development of traditional culture (not just opera). I don't dare to talk about how opera should develop. However, if everyone is working hard, it will definitely be better.