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Professional directing and playwriting bring new atmosphere to the performance on Chinese opera.
Professional Director Opens Opportunities for the Chinese Opera
There has a splendor history for Chinese opera. Yet along the changing of time, the traditional items of opera no longer can satisfy the audience. Old-tone plots and simple staging can not attract new-generation. Therefore, new spirit has been poured by introducing professional directing talents to broaden the performance space for traditional opera. Director Guan-Qiang Wang, current full-time playwright-director of the Guoguang Opera Company, originally actor of the Lu-Guang Opera School, later transformed to be professional Chinese opera director, is a good example. Counted the works of Director Wang in the past couple years, they are not only cross types of opera, cross-field, and cross-cultural. The works blends multi-performance forms, such as stage play, children’s play, music play, or musical play type.
Technology facilities bring visual changes to Chinese opera.
Bringing the inspiration of Japanese comics to the traditional Chinese opera world, “Fox Fairy Tale” expresses brand new and fantastic faces to the Chinese opera.
Through professional playwriting and directing will let the Chinese opera more vivid.
Professional Director Expresses New Ideas to Re-live Opera Performance
Director Wang considered, in recent years, audience of all ages are fond of some innovations appeared on the stage for Chinese opera. Such as good for -listening, good-watching, and playful “Adventures of 7-11 Open Models in Dragon Sea Palace” that allows audience exclaimed Chinese opera could be changing and colorful performance. Chinese opera is so charming! Therefore, in recent years, the fantasy on the stage becomes greater and more difficult. For instance, the acting of “Fox Fairy Tale” performs many difficult skills, faster rhythms, newer costumes and properties that let the audience watch closely and gave big hands loudly. More over, film-making techniques are employed on the Chinese opera stage. In the past, changing staging has to be manual pull-out the curtains, but nowadays, it only takes sound and lighting changes. The changing stage will perform on the stage simultaneously, which greatly enhances the visual emotions.
Director Wang further expressed, with time progresses, there are advanced technology facilities that are better in use. Our main purpose is to wish audience watch the best visual enjoyment at all times.Therefore, ever since Chinese opera added professional director to direct and write opera, it gradually stimulates actors to perform more vividly, and the audience acquired better understanding and attractions. Now, by absorbing western techniques, and sound and lighting effects, Chinese opera has changed its performance, and thus attracts more opera audience.
Reference: interviewed with Director Mr. Guan-Qiang Wang of Guoguang Opera Company
Source of the photos: provided and authorized Guoguang Opera Company