This event embodies the hard work of many people, with 6-year-old "Little Magnolia" and 87-year-old "Excellent Gardener" Yueju Opera | title | event
On July 2nd, the 2023 Shanghai Children's Drama Little White Magnolia Award Series event, titled "Magnolia Warm Childlike Heart · Era Youth Tour," was held at the Affiliated School of Shanghai Theatre Academy. 50 people were awarded the title of "Little Magnolia", 17 programs were awarded the title of "Excellent Collective Program", and 9 teachers were awarded the "Excellent Gardener Award".
The oldest "excellent gardener" Wang Peizhen is 87 years old, with 70 years of experience in the arts and 60 years of experience in drama education. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Korean War. 70 years ago, Wang Peizhen went to North Korea with famous Yue opera performers Xu Yulan and Wang Wenjuan to participate in volunteer military condolences performances. After winning the award, Wang Peizhen said, "What I am most proud of is the children's achievements. Learning opera is quite difficult, and it is not easy to cultivate an actor. We should start with children. I hope they will take over and contribute to the inheritance and development of traditional culture."
"The Magnolia Blossoms, the Magnolia Blossoms..." The performance of "The Song of Magnolia" by the Jinshan District Youth Choir and students from the Shanghai Theatre Academy Affiliated School of Drama kicked off. Zhang Jun, winner of the 11th Shanghai Magnolia Drama Award, and Wang Yinan, winner of the titles of "Little Plum Blossom" and "Little Magnolia", took the stage, presenting the Kunqu Opera excerpt "Long Knife and Big Bow" together. 13-year-old Wu Sihang comes from Jinshan International School and has been awarded the title of "Little Magnolia" for the third time. She is known as the Little Master of Jinshan Opera and excels in Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, and Yue Opera. This time, she brought selected scenes from Kunqu Opera's "Borrowing a Fan" to the audience, while Tong He Yi, who was awarded the title of "Little Magnolia," performed Yue Opera's "Dream of the Red Chamber: Golden Jade Love". The youngest "Little Magnolia" Wang Jiayue is only 6 years old, and she and her friends perform excerpts from the Shanghai opera "Jiang Jie". For the first time in the selection of "Little Magnolia", a musical category has been added, and the Little Yingxing Art Troupe has brought a segment of the musical "One Cannot Be Without One".
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The award-winning contestants will experience the learning journey of professional theater professionals in advance at the affiliated drama school of Shanghai Theatre Academy. Everyone shuttles between six classrooms, conducting basic skills training with students from the theater school, experiencing the silk dance of "Heavenly Maidens Scattering Flowers" in the Peking Opera performance class, understanding the composition and instrument characteristics of opera bands in the opera music class, and experiencing how to control puppets in the puppet performance class. The organizer also organized parents to watch Peking Opera movies and invited Li Peihong, the Dean of the School of Drama at Shanghai Theatre Academy, to conduct a drama tour for the parents.