After the Long Opera was officially named, the Gansu Long Opera Troupe went to large and medium-sized cities and regions in North China, East China, and Northwest China for exchanges and performances with plays such as Maple Rock Pond and The Tale of the Gleaming Table, expanding the influence of the Long Opera, and bringing the Long Opera into the stage of steady development.
With the gradual maturity of the Long Opera, it can not only perform the tragic and comedic dramas and singing plays mainly in three small lines, but also perform modern plays with complex plots. The so-called "three small", refers to the three lines of the young, young Dan, clown. Long Opera has gradually developed the artistic characteristics of melodious tunes, delicate and beautiful performances, elegant costumes, soft and coordinated sets, and rich folk colors.
Longdong Daoxiang originally did not have the role of the line, mainly with the shadow of the different shapes, to indicate the different lines. Therefore, the Longdong Opera on stage, unlike other big kinds of theater as has its own traditional role of the line can be inherited.
In this kind of situation, the creators of Long Opera practiced, groped and gradually created their own role of the theater. Long Opera character line with reference to and imitation of the Longdong Daoxiang shadow people's characters and shadow performance action, the creation of the general classification and characteristics of the line.
Long opera on the stage, in addition to a small number of adapted performances of the original traditional repertoire of the Daoxiang, a large number of performances are transplanted from other types of theater, such as Xiao Xian opera, Beijing opera, Yueju opera, Kunqu opera, Chuanju opera and so on.
In the rehearsal of these plays, most of the reference to the original theater line, corresponding to set up the Long Opera line, and absorbed and melted the performance of those kinds of theater line of the body, enrichment and enrichment of the Long Opera line.
Long opera according to the content of the newly created plays and the different types of characters, identity, age, personality, etc., with reference to the norms of the general opera character line, set up a more suitable or close to the line to perform.
The character line of the first play of Long Opera, Fengluo Chi, was redesigned according to such a method, for example, Jane Ren Tong was designed as a young scholar, Du Ruoyi as a martial artist, Wu Feixia and Ma Yaocao as young dancers, Niu Gui as a clown in official clothes, and Liang Ji as a big flower face.
In the process of the development of Long Opera, in order to express and highlight the characteristics of Long Opera's delicate, elegant and lyrical music, the development of the three small plays is the main focus, and the performance is also centered on the three small. Therefore, the Long Opera in the establishment of the line, the establishment of the three small mainly, taking into account other roles of the line system.
In addition, in the creation of the three small lines, the Long Opera, in addition to reference to other types of theater, such as Yueju Opera, Chuanju Opera, Peking Opera performance program, but also from a number of folk art, especially the Longdong rice-planting songs and social fire and other performances, refined, standardized, created the Long Opera three small lines of the performance of the program, such as the ground wandering step and the wind swinging willow step, etc., and further promote the development of the Longdong Daoxiang.
In 1963, Gansu Province for the third time on the Longdong Daoxiang systematic collection and organization. This activity, together with the results of the first two, **** collected 63 scripts, all kinds of artists singing more than 200 sections, 146 songs, 54 kinds of percussion sheet music, 62 folk songs, recording information up to 3,120 meters, and compiled into the Longdong Daoxiang book and the Longdong Daoxiang year examination genealogy table "and other important information.
After systematically collecting and organizing the Longdong Daoxiang, the creation of many large-scale original Long opera, the main repertoire are "Feng Luo Chi", "grassland early spring", "exotic knower", "Yanhe storm", "national grace family celebration", "crouching cow running to the moon", "masters of the world", "the world's first drums", "Dunhuang soul", "Poplar River", "yellow flowers", "black and white life", "Longdong Wa", "Xiangbao love", "Green Leaf", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the" and "the", "the", "the". Xiangbao Love", "Green Leaves and Red Flowers", "Zhou Zu Gong Liu", "Daughters Like Flowers" and so on.
Long opera adapted and transplanted large-scale plays are "fake son-in-law multiplied by the dragon", "Xie Yaohuan", "The Tale of the Red Lanterns", "Wisdom of Weihuoshan", "Shajiabang", "seaport", "Azalea Hill", "Panshiwan", "Scholar and the beggar", "Xu Jiujing by the promotion of the record", "Crested Dragon Dreams", "national law and humane", "Mu Guiying repudiation of her husband", "Deadwater", "five women to pay tribute to the life of a woman", and so on.
Long opera's folding and one-act plays include "Pick Son-in-Law", "Water Fight", "Su Wu Returns to Han", "Jie Long Ling", "Sitting on the Floor and Killing Shy", "Losing a Son and Going Crazy", "Fascinated by Dreams", "Slipping on Oil Mountain", "Ghosts Complaints", "Nezha Practicing Martial Arts", "Baoyu Weeping", "Sinking the Hundred Treasure Boxes with Anger", and "Luocheng Calling for Guan", among others.
Long Opera has accumulated more than 200 plays, among which "Maple Pond", "Liu Qiao'er's New Legend", "Old Meng's Marriage", "The World's First Drum", "Longyuan Spring", "Longdong Wa", "Official Goose's Love Song" and so on have attracted a large response with distinctive colors of the times and regional characteristics.
Longdong Wa is based on the story of Li Yong, a teacher-training student in Qingyang City, Gansu Province, who overcame all kinds of difficulties and carried his disabled father on his back all year round to study.
The play is based on the principle of faithfulness to the prototype, and has been reasonably fictionalized and expanded to extend the living space of the main character, Li Ming, and the surrounding characters from the family and the school to the society, so as to make the character's personality traits more typical, centralized, and believable.
The story of "Longdong Wa" is about a 16-year-old mountain village boy, Li Ming, who has to bear the heavy burden of supporting his paralyzed father, searching for a source of livelihood, and trying to finish his studies, as well as enduring the mental pressure brought about by the world's prejudices and his inferiority complex. Despite this, he is not pessimistic and does not give up.
"Longdong Wa" has made all-round innovations in performance, music, choreography and other aspects, so that the performance achieves the stage effect of harmonious unification of ideology and artistry. In the play, the actors' singing, reading, acting and dancing are close to life, real and vivid, which well reflects the style positioning of the whole play which is mainly based on feelings.
The music and singing design of "Longdong Wa" is looking for a new point of combination in the inheritance of tradition and development and innovation, and the performance style of the whole drama is based on emotion, which determines the lyricism of the music and singing, such as the mainstream plate of the drama consisting of 14 singing sections, 10 sections belong to the category of lyricism and theatricality.
The stage art of "Longdongwa", according to the requirement of frequent environmental changes and the alternation of time and space in the four seasons, adopts an illusionary approach, designing six tall triangular prismatic cylinders as the main stage scenery, and each prismatic cylinder is painted on three sides to show the characteristics of different seasons or different environmental locations.
The play also has a number of new features in its action design. For example, the pedaling tricycle performance in "Working on Vacation" is quite ornamental, as he jumps onto the virtual tricycle with a little step and forms a triangle with the young man and woman in the car behind him.
In the play, Dawn sings "Stomping up the tricycle to catch the road" and the sound of the reed, the three of them point step at the same time, twisting the rice-planting cross-steps, jumping up and down dance. Then, the characters did different dance movements such as the "Bu Bu" step and the "Broken" step according to the content of the singing and the rhythm of the music. With the movement of the three pronged column on the stage, it indicated that the tricycle was traveling through the streets and alleys with tall buildings.
It is through this kind of performance that the actors integrate the real-life state, the virtual program of the opera, the modern dance technique and the folk rice-planting dance movements, making the drama both characteristic of the opera and new to the times.
In this way, after years of accumulation, the character line of Long Opera took shape. By the early 1980s, its main roles included the young, the bearded, the old, etc., and the main roles included the young, the positive, the colorful, the old, the martial arts, etc., as well as the big make-up purity line, the two purity lines, the official clothes clowns, the male clowns, the clowns, etc. The clown lines were all made of powder, which was the best way to make the opera a success. Among them, the clown rows are all set with foundation makeup, outlining the ugly face dress up.
The singing style of Long Opera is relatively free, with smooth tunes and fast rhythms, similar to rap. The trailing accent at the end of the tune is called a reed, and when it is sung, it is called a reed. It is an important component of the unique style of Long Opera music, which is rich in local color.
Well spring in the application of the original breakthrough in two or four sentences a send spring format, according to the plot and the needs of the character feelings, break through the format of the female voice, the well spring in the most emotionally charged place, so that it has a more artistic charm. According to the role of the different and emotional needs, respectively, with men helping men, women helping women, mixed voice reed and other forms, enriching the charm of the reed.
The application of the reed in the solo, chorus, chorus, duet, male and female vocal range, range processing and tonal conversion, etc., have carried out a bold exploration, enriching and enhancing the narrative, lyrical and characterization of the musical expression.
The singing of Long Opera does not have a strict beat, and is relatively free and fast, with a strong rap. Long Opera singing plate style mainly has two kinds of springboard and flyboard. Bouncing board is characterized by melodic stretching and smooth, beautiful and beautiful. The speed is generally medium-speed, slightly slower, more suitable for lyricism and narrative.
In addition, the head of the plate and the big door of the springboard are more regular, and the singing is composed of a variety of beat patterns, with a specific pattern. The first beat of the small crossing gate is usually overlapped on the last word of the sung phrase.
Flying plate singing and springboard have **** the same, also by a variety of beat type regular. The first beat of the small door overlaps on the last word of the phrase. The speed of the flyboard is slightly faster, and the singing is more rap and narrative.
The accompaniment music of the Long Opera belongs to the plate style, which is divided into two categories, namely the wounded tone and the flower tone. The tune is deep and euphonious, suitable for the expression of sad feelings, so it is also known as the "bitter sound" or "crying sound". The flower sound tune is lively and jumpy, good at expressing joyful emotions, so it is also known as the "happy sound".
Long opera accompanied by musical instruments, orchestral music, four hu, erhu, pipa, yangqin, flute, suona, etc.. The percussion instruments include fishing drums, simple boards, water clappers, big Luo, small gongs, big rubbers, hinges, hall drums, war drums, board drums, and teeth.
Later, the instruments used in Long Opera also had a greater development, adding the yangqin, fiddle and some brass and woodwind instruments, which greatly enriched the expressive power of Long Opera music.
Long opera's action performance seeks authenticity, attaches importance to the life from the start, to portray the inner world of the characters in a delicate way. The performance of the Long Opera absorbed part of the shadow side modeling, such as guards and guards with large side silhouette posture.
Particularly its crying action is more unique, the action of the performance program is the character's left sleeve hanging shot, the right hand with the sleeve to cover the face, large side swaying waist, leaning back and forth, convulsions and sobbing, so very distinctive.
Long opera actor's costume got rid of the traditional style of opera, broke the python robe, cape on the traditional pattern of dragon and phoenix, redesigned pattern style. Improved stage costumes skirt, arrow clothes, open road, etc. are to plain embroidered edges of the main, stable and generous style, simple and elegant colors. The big lean and armor and so on is based on the temple in the statue of God's attire as a blueprint, largely similar to the terracotta warriors of Qin's clothing and armor.
In terms of stage art, after the finalization of the Long Opera Dan actor make-up gave up the traditional big bun head modeling, to the shadow people's high bun swallow tail as the basic style, but also a combination of Gansu Dunhuang murals in the Tang Dynasty women's hair, designed a single bun, double buns, curved buns, buns, such as a variety of unique swallow-tailed bun style, the front of the sticking bristle horn, the back of the umbrella braid, close to the ancient women's make-up costume.
The stage art of Long Opera is also characterized by sets and props that retain the style of shadow puppetry, using exaggerated techniques to serve the plot. Masonry refers to all the modeling in addition to shadow characters, also known as "masonry horse". It includes animal modeling, all kinds of scenery pieces and props modeling, etc., which greatly enriched the artistic characteristics of Long Opera.
After the reform and opening up, Gansu Province will be the former Huanxian Cultural Troupe converted into the Huanxian Long Opera Troupe, Qingyang area departments set up the Qingyang Long Opera Troupe. In addition, the Qin Opera Troupe all over Gansu Province often performs Long Opera, and the Gansu Provincial Art School also has a Long Opera class, which has trained three students.
The Long Opera "Yan River Storm" and "Exotic Knowing" two plays in Beijing tour time for a month, *** performance of 18 shows, the capital once again blowing the Long Opera wind.
Later, the Long Opera "Yan River Storm" and "Hopeful" was adapted into an opera television series, and broadcast on a number of television stations, so that more and more viewers recognize the unique charm of the Long Opera.
Lanzhou Taiping drum as the theme of the creation of a large-scale modern Long Opera "the world's first drum" went to Kunming, Yunnan Province to participate in the Third China Arts Festival, a sensation in the Spring City. The world's first drum" succeeded in beating the drum out of Gansu.
The main plot of "The First Drum in the World" is that the Lanzhou farmers' drum team has broken many traditional customs in order to perform in Beijing. At the same time, the two drum kings in the process of collaborative rehearsal, they will be the drum skills and masterpieces of the Taiping drum fusion together, so that the Taiping drum art even more exquisite.
The play centers on the Taiping Drum, showing a new generation of peasants as masculine and enthusiastic as the Taiping Drum, as well as the rough experiences of several generations and the different fates of the old and the new. The play's Long Opera singing music, underpinned by the Longdong Taoist sentiment, fills the play from content to form with the bleak atmosphere of the West and the masculine flavor unique to the Loess Plateau.
The new large-scale historical Long opera "official goose love song" was praised by relevant experts. The characteristics of the play is summarized in a "soil" word, that is, the local theater, local writers, local subjects and local actors. It is these several "earth" word represents the deep Gansu brand, so that the play has reached the pinnacle of China's theater art.
The "Love Song of the Official Goose" is based on a legend circulating in Longnan, Gansu Province, which tells a touching story of love and hatred, unity and harmony between the Qiang and Qiang tribes in Longnan in ancient times.
Gansu Long Theater in Gansu Province according to the history of this love to create and perform the Long Opera "official goose love song", Gansu Province, the second selected for the National Stage Art Excellence of the repertoire. Experts praised the play:
Good choice of material, good theme, good plot, called China's western version of "Romeo and Juliet".
The story of "Love Song of the Official Goose" is about the son of the ancient Dangchang tribe chief, the official bead, who sneaked into the Qiang tribe's Golden Goat Village for revenge and fell in love with the Qiang tribe chief's daughter, Goose Man, at first sight, and the two of them indulged in a passionate love affair, which resulted in a twisted and touching love story.
In the end, the young people of the two tribes used their love to dissolve the hatred between the two tribes for the grassland and the accumulation of generations, and from then on, the two tribes lived in harmony. In order to permanently commemorate the official beads and goose Man, the local people to their most beautiful place named "official goose ditch".
In this play, the most praiseworthy is that the Longdong Taoism in a singing in the help of the Well spring in the play is not only inherited, and according to the feelings of the characters and the needs of the atmosphere of the stage, the use of a variety of means, the traditional two sentences of a send reed innovation, derived from a variety of accompanying forms of singing, re-singing and choral singing.
Well spring is good to listen to and learn, listen to it twice, people can not help but hum along in the heart. This is a small local theater, by the majority of the audience's favorite.