“Cycle of Traps”, a showcase production of Shanghai Youth Peking Opera and Kunqu Troupe, is wonderfully staged

Publisher:英文主页Time:2023-03-21Views:18

Recently, the classic traditional play "Cycle of Traps" was staged at the White House Theatre on the Lianhua Road campus of the Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA). This play was a showcase production of the Shanghai Youth Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera Troupe under the Shanghai Culture-Education Integration Project, and brought together 45 students from STA’s College of Chinese Opera to participate in the performance.

In order for the inheritance of the art of Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera from generation to generation, the Shanghai Youth Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera Troupe of the Shanghai Theatre Academy rehearses and performs classic plays all year round, and pays great attention to the cultivation of top talents in traditional Chinese opera. Moreover, STA’s College of Traditional Chinese Opera works actively to build cooperation platforms with major professional Chinese opera companies and troupes, so as to provide students with valuable stage practice opportunities, and supply "high-quality and cutting-edge" traditional Chinese opera talents to those companies and troupes. Since 2019, the College of Traditional Chinese Opera has successively collaborated with the National Peking Opera Company, the Shanghai Peking Opera Company and the Tianjin Peking Opera Company to establish talent training bases and student practice bases. Many famous artists have been engaged as external teachers of the College of Traditional Chinese Opera and the Shanghai Youth Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera Troupe to teach the students on campus.

On the night of the performance, in the atmosphere created by the band, the students accurately interpreted the characters in the play. The teachers in front of and behind the stage also contributed a great deal of hard work for this performance, making it a complete success. After the performance, leaders including Li Peihong, the dean of the College of Traditional Chinese Opera, and all the expert reviewers present highly appraised and recognized the performance.

This year marks the 17th anniversary of the establishment of the Shanghai Youth Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera Troupe of the Shanghai Theatre Academy. Teachers and students of STA will continue to carry forward the art of Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera, tell the China story soundly with traditional Chinese opera, and enhance cultural confidence and inherit the cultural tradition in the course of innovating on the basis of what has worked in the past.