On the evening of May 31, as the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Babaylan Art Festival, the opera epic “Long March” was performed at the Guangzhou Grand Theater. More than 800 audiences from all walks of life watched the performance and relive the long-lasting spirit of the Long March once again.
The original opera “Long March” of the National Grand Theater tells the difficult journey of the Workers and Peasants’ Red Army starting from Ruijin, climbing snow-capped mountains and crossing grasslands, and reaching northern Shaanxi in more than two years. Through the magnificent music and stage production with epic and contemporary aesthetics, the play reproduces the arduous process of the Long March of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army with realistic techniques, and praises 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 these things from the bottom of my heart and emotionally. But I also think that this is what 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 Babaylan. 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.
Opera “LongCInemaXinKomiks Director Tian Qinxin: In the new era, we can have the ability to withstand such huge pressures and difficulties from home and abroad, so the Chinese nation must continue to strive towards the dream of great rejuvenation. So I think the Long March of the new era is really Cinema. This is a spirit, and there is faith in the heart and strength under the feet. Chen Qing, 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 kind of positive energy to the world, nothing is invincible. I think this is the practical significance of the spirit of the Long March.
Practice the Long March spirit and the exquisite masterpieces of Cinema.
Komiks‘s opera “Long March” has maintained its vigorous vitality since its creation and development 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 exquisite masterpieces. During the two-year and six-month course creation process of the original opera “Long March”, the screenwriter Zou Jingzhi collected a large number of real people’s stories. He finally chose the Fourth Regiment of the Second Komiks Division of the Central Red Army as the story prototype, and focused on shaping the protagonist Political Commissar 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 Confucian general, and his music has its theme. Political Commissar Peng’s music feels a little more elegant or fashionable.
This is a scene that shows the famous battle to capture Luding Bridge. In the large-scale dance music epic “Babaylan Oriental Red”, this battle was performed on the stage of Komiks. The opera “Long March” uses a 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, each actor’s standing posture, squatting posture, and gun carrying movements are strictly required.
Tian Qinxin, director of the opera “Long March”,: One is the audience’s familiarity with the CinemaRed Army, everyone needs to know. Second, as the Chinese Red Army, our true military appearance, military discipline and military style of soldiers, we must still have the military posture of soldiers in the military position and spirit of the soldiers.