"The Living Fossil of Traditional Chinese Opera" and "Zhang Xie's Champion" made their debut at the Southern Opera Classic Culture Week (Shanghai Station), with the winner of the Plum Blossom Award leading the media | Event | Zhang Xie's Champion
On July 27th, the media conference for the "Drama Comes from Wenzhou" Southern Opera Classic Culture Week was held at the Wanping Theater in Shanghai. Plum Blossom Award winner Fang Ru will sing the Ou Opera "Zhang Xie's Top Scholar: Street Tour". From August 9th to 14th, Culture Week will present a feast of Wenzhou's most distinctive traditional Chinese opera culture to Shanghai audiences, including "Zhang Xie," which is known as the "first play in China" and "living fossil of traditional Chinese opera".
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Plum Blossom Award winner Fang Rujiang.
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The earliest and most well preserved theatrical script discovered in China to date, "Zhang Xie's Champion," was born in Wenzhou. In recent years, Yongjia Kunqu Opera Troupe and Wenzhou Ouju Art Research Institute have successively rehearsed "Zhang Xie's Champion", which has been widely praised.
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"Drama Comes from Wenzhou" Media Meeting.
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The special performance of "Drama Comes from Wenzhou" is divided into six chapters: "Preface", "Hometown of Southern Opera", "Four Seasons Flowers Bloom", "Tanghe Opera Rhyme", "Voice of the Times", and "Epilogue". It integrates various artistic forms of performance, including Ou Opera, Yue Opera, Yongkun Opera, Wenzhou Drum Lyrics, folk songs, puppetry, and children's Peking Opera. The entire performance is full of rich local characteristics and rich historical and cultural heritage of Wenzhou.
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