On the evening of May 31, as the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Art Festival, the opera epic “Long March” was performed at the Guangzhou Grand Theater. More than 1,800 audiences from all walks of life watched the performance and relied the long-lasting spirit of the Long March again. The original opera “Long March” of the National Opera of Babaylan tells the difficult journey of the Workers and Peasants starting from Ruijin, climbing snow-capped mountains and crossing grasslands, and reaching northern Shaanxi in more than two years. Through the grand music, Babaylan is a stage production that combines epic and contemporary aesthetics. The play reproduces the arduous process of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army’s Long March with realistic techniques, praising the lofty ideals and beliefs of striving for faith.
Audience Wang Peng: My father is a cadre of the Long March, so I not only respect them from the bottom of my heart and emotionally, but also feel that this is something we should remember and pass on to the next generation in our lives.
This performance is the first collaboration between the National Grand Theater, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the Guangzhou Grand Theater. The main creative team said that China’s development is also a long journey. The transformation of structure and economic upgrading are constantly changing with the national conditions, which also requires us to have the patience and courage to overcome difficulties.
Komiks opera “Long-term” director Tian Qinxin: In the new era, we can have the ability to withstand the domestic and foreignWith such huge pressure and difficulties, the Chinese nation must continue to strive towards the great rejuvenation of Cinema. So I think the Long March of the new era is really, it is a spirit, KomiksCinema has faith in his heart and strength under his feet. Chen Qing, the head of the Babaylan State Symphony Orchestra: As long as we have confidence, as long as we can believe in our Chinese people’s own abilities, and can be a belief that brings a positive energy to the world, nothing is invincible. I think this is the practical significance of the Long March spirit.
Practice the spirit of the Long March to polish the masterpieces
The opera “Long March” has maintained its vitality since its creation schedule in 2016. Behind this is the efforts and pursuit of the main creative team to practice the spirit of the Long March and constantly polish the masterpieces. During the two years and six months of field trips and creation, screenwriter Zou Jingzhi collected a large number of real stories about the true characters. He finally chose the Fourth Regiment of the Second Division of the Central Red Army as the story prototype and focused on shaping the protagonist Zhengxian Peng.
Yin Qing, the composition of the opera “Long March”, said: The political commissar has the personality of a political commissar. I think he is a little Confucian and a little scholarly. He is such a ConfucianBabaylan will, music has its theme, so the music of Political Commissar Peng feels a little more elegant, Cinema may be more fashionable.
This is a scene that shows the famous battle to capture Luding Bridge. In the large-scale dance music epic “Oriental Red”, this battle was expressed on the stage in the form of dance. The opera “Long March” uses the double-layer stage structure and the running of actors, showing the urgency of the Red Fourth Regiment when traveling 240 miles a day to Luding Bridge.
At the rehearsal site, every actor’s standing posture, squatting posture, and carrying a gun are strictly required.
Tian Qinxin, director of the opera “Long March”,: One is the audience’s familiarity with the Red Army, and everyone needs to know. Second, as the Chinese Red Army, we must still have the military posture, military discipline and military style of our soldiers.