Jiangsu is a major province of opera and the birthplace of opera. There are more than 20 types of local operas. In the context of the Internet, how to create a brand new business card for Jiangsu opera music?

On the evening of June 17, Jiangsu Grand Theater, the large-scale opera symphony concert "Sufeng Opera Rhythm" organized by the Symphony Orchestra of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group was the first to use the symphony "Second Creation" of the opera music of seven types of operas in Jiangsu, which was refreshing and refreshing. , but also lead to new thinking.

Secondary creation is secondary creation, which refers to the completion of new creations by imitating, adapting, citing and exerting the texts, images, videos, music, etc. of existing works. With the change of communication methods, in recent years, the multi-dimensional "second creation" method is becoming an important means to attract contemporary young people to get close to traditional culture.

Cross-border trendy, a combination of Chinese and Western. To a certain extent, this "Su Feng Xi Yun" concert is an imaginative display of the achievements of "two innovations"——

The symphonic poem "Blossoming Purple" composed by Du Xiaosu presents the "orchid" of Kunqu Opera in the form of a canon of woodwinds, bringing the audience into the serene rhythm of colorful purple; The palette and adagio reveal the freshness of life. The distinctive Liuqin opera, played with the suona, makes people hear the crisp sound of the wind blowing the silk jacket; The Erhu Concerto "Hundred Years Old in Command", the erhu is sobbing and complaining, the symphony is full of passion, the tension is ups and downs, and the beauty is high...

"It's novel, good-sounding, and high-level", "I didn't expect the combination of China and the West to be so beautiful", "I hope to see more high-level performances in the future"... After the performance, the audience expressed their admiration. The experts gathered together to discuss how to better spread and inherit opera culture in a symphonic way.

"This batch of works captures the essence of opera and re-creates it in a symphonic form, which not only improves the aesthetic level of opera music, but also increases various possibilities for the inheritance of opera music, which will help to improve the national popularity of local operas such as Suzhou opera and Dan opera. Popularity." For this innovation, opera expert Zhao Zhenfang repeatedly praised.

The solo of national musical instruments such as Kundi, Erhu, Suona, etc., has become the finishing touch of the symphony of this opera. What makes the popular Kunqu Opera student and Provincial Kunqu President Shi Xiaming feel the most commendable is that there are no opera actors and singing voices on the stage, but after Du Liniang played in the large and colorful garden, the traces of melancholy and melancholy emotions in her heart, but through the instrumental music The weaving was very accurately expressed, "It was also the first time that I sat down as an audience and watched a concert in which the symphony was used to play various opera's vocal systems. I was deeply shocked. It is delicate, and the musical symbols are flowing, vividly showing the individuality of the music of each drama."

The seven operas appearing in the concert are Kunqu Opera, Suzhou Opera, Dan Opera, Xi Opera, Yang Opera, Liuqin Opera and Huai Opera. In addition to the different characteristics of operas, the creators from the post-50s to the post-80s have different age experiences, life backgrounds, personalities, and familiarity with local operas, etc., which also enriches the opera symphony works produced by the "Second Creation". There is focus.

"Some have rich music and newer creative techniques, while some teachers present the material of opera arias in a three-dimensional manner, repeating and changing them constantly; some teachers push their works to a new level through emotional expression. "Looking at Taihu Lake," the self-composed caprice by the post-80s composer Kong Zhixuan, draws inspiration from the tin opera "Double Pushing Mill" and "Pearl Tower".

"Traditional opera is a hundred gardens. Some operas emphasize the simplification of vocal tune, while others are very complicated. After listening to the Soviet opera for two months, I found that its basic tune is Taiping tune in the process of development. Influenced by different art forms such as Pingtan, Shanghai Opera, Kunqu Opera, Jiangnan Sizhu, etc., there is no strong melody that can directly correspond to it, and it is a Suzhou Opera when people listen to it." In the end, Cui Anqiang, while digging into the characteristics of the opera, expressed his appreciation for Su Opera. The representative melody of the play has been creatively refined, and the orchestral music "Dream Wu Feng" created by the Suzhou opera style made the audience sigh, as if the swaying flower shadows in a dream are full of the atmosphere of a small town in the south of the Yangtze River.

The composer Wang Xiaobing, who has a good understanding of Huai Opera, rubbed the Huai Opera's Huai tune and pull tune into a secret aroma in the orchestral "Yang Yang Da Jiang Huai", and penetrated into the notes with the method of convolution, and the integration of the symphony made the It has achieved innovation and breakthroughs on the basis of traditional culture. "The first thing about opera music is to sound good, but it doesn't have to be opera music. How to dig opera rhythm on the basis of symphony? In addition to finding materials on opera tunes and board styles, you can also start from the charm of opera."

Go left is drama, go right is symphony. How to grasp the scale of the integration of the two has also become the focus of communication at the seminar. In this regard, Cui Xin, a national first-class composer, said: "The symphonic presentation of opera elements, and the expression of non-human opera rhythms through instrumental music is an aesthetic basis for this concert. If only the singing of a piece of opera is presented. If the orchestration is added, the symphony of the music will be insufficient; if it is refined and generalized too much, the charm of the opera will be insufficient, and it will not meet the audience's expectations. The means of symphony, and it must be something of rhythm when it comes out.”

"Whether it is the symphonicization of Jiangsu opera music or the nationalization of symphonic music, I think it is of great significance." Zhu Changyao, a famous Erhu master, suggested that another distinctive type of opera, Huaihai opera, be added to show Jiangsu opera more comprehensively. style.

To perceive opera culture is to experience the unique charm of historical context. Regarding the opinions and suggestions put forward by the participating experts, Wang Zhiqiang, deputy head of the Symphony Orchestra, said that they will further polish and revise the works and perform on more and larger stages, striving to create a piece of Jiangsu opera music. New business card!