Evaluation of Mao dui

"Call me a bully. Do I have this honor? "

On a rainy winter day, Mao, the head of Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Troupe, came to Shanghai dressed in black. He wore a thin black coat, short hair and a black hat ... which made the artist in his thirties look very thin and atmospheric. Behind the black flat glasses, there are hairy eyes with unique charm. In the eyebrow eye, it once conveyed Zhang Sheng's elegance and elegance, interpreted Liang Shanbo's infatuation and Kong Yiji's madness and eccentricity ... No wonder everyone always said that Mao's eyes were "too powerful to look straight" for fear that she would see all her personality and spirit at a glance.

Today, Mao's eyes are full of rare happiness and satisfaction. As the representative of the organizer, she came to attend the special performance of Teacher Yin Xiaofang. At the scene of this activity called "Accompanying Fun", Mao changed his former vigor and vitality, as if he were a different person, snuggling up to the teacher like a daughter: dressing the elderly teacher, serving tea and water, gently brushing away the wrinkled hand of the teacher with his hand from time to time, sticking it to his ear and whispering to amuse the teacher. ...

"Teacher Xiao Fang has played an extremely important role in the inheritance and development of the Yin School of Yue Opera. After the Cultural Revolution, it was difficult for Mr. Dai and Mr. Dai to continue performing and teaching due to physical reasons. It is through the inheritance, development and cultivation of Xiao Fang that Yin School has such a great influence today. " At the symposium, Mao, as a disciple's representative, said with deep affection: "In the home of Xiao Fang, a teacher in the attic on the third floor of Weihai Road, there is an art hall for us young people to learn Yin School. Every time I leave Xiao Fang's house, I always dare not look back, because I know that the teacher must be watching us from the balcony on the third floor. " All the Yin disciples present were moved by these words.

Perhaps, Mao is responding to the once-hotly debated question of "ingratitude" in Yinmen with his own practical actions. Over the years, there have been many questions about this person in the Yue Opera circle. Mao always said with a smile, "when people reach middle age, they will no longer be angry, but will know more about peace."

Inherit in innovation

Mao can be said to be one of the most important artists in Yue Opera today. As a student of the School of Music, she not only inherited the unique singing style, but also inherited the tireless spirit of artistic exploration, and was even praised as "an out-and-out reformer" by her peers. From The Romance of the West Chamber, which studied the temperament of Kunqu Opera, to Kong Yiji, who shaved her head boldly, to the new version of butterfly lovers, which caused quite a controversy not long ago, she always tried different artistic styles in each work. Although almost all stage experiments have different reputations, she has been persistent, calm and firm on the road of Shaoxing Opera reform in recent years. These artistic images have injected new vitality into traditional Yue Opera. Mao not only became the only actor in Yue Opera who won the Plum Blossom Award three times, but also made Zhejiang Yue Opera Troupe brilliant today.

"When I first performed in Shanghai, I was always scolded by the audience. They even wanted to scold me off the stage in Shanghai." Mao recalled that in the early 1980s, Shanghai audiences often judged an actor by genre singing. "I know I can't learn, because my timbre can't be the same as the teacher's. On the day when the performance ended, we packed the props. I personally heard some Shanghai audiences shouting: don't come, don't come ... A teacher in the group quickly pulled me out of listening, and I said it didn't matter. At that time, I only had one belief: as long as the audience liked me, I would sing like this. "

"In those days, in order to shape Qu Yuan, the former teacher greatly broke through the original procedures of female students in Yue Opera, and was once questioned by people like Yin School. But my wife insisted: I sang the silver platoon in Yin Guifang! This sentence moved me very much. Teacher Tai's innovative spirit is my driving force. " When talking about his artistic orientation of Yue Opera today, Mao always insisted on "inheriting through innovation, not innovating through inheritance".

"This is what I came up with when I became the manager of a troupe." Mao introduced, 1999, and Mao became the head of Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe with his influence among the audience. Since then, she has to face the harsh situation of the loss of a large number of audiences in Yue Opera. After careful consideration, Mao put forward a series of reform measures, one of which was completely incomprehensible to many people at that time-she wanted to "urbanize" Yue Opera. Does this mean that Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe will give up the vast rural audience and rural market? At that time, people talked a lot. "I didn't give up the countryside. Since I became the head of the troupe, almost 30% of the performances in the whole year were in real rural areas, 60% in cities, and 10% in cities. I try to arrange more foreign performances and expand the influence of Yue Opera. This is the performance market percentage that I set for the troupe as a manager. "

She said: "If we keep the tradition blindly and cater to the old audience, we are bound to enter a dead end within ten years!" One hundred years ago, Yue Opera came to Shanghai like a village girl wearing a blue cloth and became a beautiful lady under the influence of the new culture. In our generation, Yue Opera became an art in the city, only to be forced to return to the folk. Then all the previous efforts were in vain. I am not reconciled! "

On one occasion, Mao watched Peach Blossom Garden in the Grand Theatre, and the young female college students around her recognized her and claimed to be her opera fans. When Mao asked "why don't you come to see our Liang Zhu", the female college student said shyly, "I gave my mother the ticket." At that time, Mao's mood was mixed. "If only the young audience watching Peach Blossom Spring could come to see our Yue Opera!" Since then, she has reformed Yue Opera, making it "younger and more urbanized" and winning a young audience. Nowadays, Hua Xiaobai, Zhejiang Province has gradually attracted the attention of many young people by popularizing lectures in colleges and universities and creating works in line with modern aesthetic and humanistic spirit, forming a large-scale "fan group" and maintaining a relatively good performance market among peer troupes.

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"Maopai" is my goal.

The "gratitude and resentment" about Mao and other "golden flowers" are widely circulated, but compared with the doubts about whether Mao is qualified to establish a "Maoist", these rumors are really insignificant.

Mao has always had his own understanding of the unique charm of female students in Yue Opera: "Female students have an assumed beauty, which means that you can properly grasp the gender scale. It is the same strain as Dan, so we can observe the world from another angle and vision. Personally, I think this is a double aesthetic, that is, you can reflect on it while examining it. And this kind of embodiment often has a beautiful, ideal and romantic feeling. I think a good actor must grasp the soul of his work and control the stage, not just tell stories. Just like the imperial concubine played by Mr. Mei Lanfang, today, his elegance and charm are beyond the reach of actresses. "

In line with Mao's unique artistic pursuit, Tao Wei suddenly detached himself from the so-called "Maoism" debate: "In fact, I feel that I am very personalized, and Maoism is my goal. But it doesn't matter if I'm an impostor or not. My ambition may actually be bigger-I hope that one day when others recognize me as an impostor, I don't just mean my singing skills. It also includes Mao's unique skills, including performance and harmony, thus leaving a unique artistic image of Yue Opera belonging to this era on the stage. "