Yue Opera New Dragon Gate Inn:An Exploration of the Path to Contemporary Adaptation of Traditional Chinese Drama
The"Environmental Guofeng"Yue opera New Dragon Gate Inn has achieved significant market success since its premiere.By creating an"environmental"performance space and reshaping the interactive relationship be-tween actors and audiences,New Dragon Gate Inn successfully inherits and contemporarily reconstructs the tradition of"vivid"drama,offering an intense theatrical experience and a novel viewing sensation.Through highly experimen-tal scenic design and stage direction,it builds a poetic and tension-filled dramatic atmosphere,shifting the focus of dramatic narration from plot to scenario,thus constructing a dramatic experience that integrates tradition with moder-nity in the context of operatic works.The piece accurately captures the aesthetic strengths of Yue opera and aligns them with the preferences of contemporary young audiences,particularly female viewers.Under the premise of main-taining and promoting its fundamental aesthetic characteristics,this approach allows Yue opera art to transform its"traffic"into"retention",contributing a highly instructive path exploration for the modernization and future develop-ment of traditional Chinese opera.
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