The Chinese version of Figaro's Marriage premiered in Xiamen After 41 years, the original staff of the 83rd Opera Department of the Central Conservatory of Music reappeared the classic works Xiamen Daily (reporter Chen Dong, correspondent Yan Xin ） Zheng Xiaoying, a 95 year old conductor, served as the artistic director, and Wu Lingfen, a nearly 80 year old conductor, performed again. The 83rd students of the Opera Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, with an average age of nearly 70 years, reunited on the stage after 41 years... On the evening of May 10, the Chinese version of Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premiered in Xiamen at the Xiamen Jiageng Theater. When the last note fell, all the audience stood up, Give them the warmest applause and pay high tribute. The Chinese version of Marriage of Figaro was produced by Zheng Xiaoying Opera Art Center. The play was translated by Zhang Chengmo, sung by Jiang Ying (Mrs. Qian Xuesen), and repaired by Wu Lingfen and Zheng Xiaoying. The original staff of the first opera department of the Central Conservatory of Music, which premiered the opera in China in 1983, played the leading role. Together with Xiamen Opera Philharmonic Chorus and Fuzhou Strait Symphony Orchestra, they presented this classic opera full of wit, satire, forgiveness and love on a modern stage full of oil paintings. 41 years later, Xiamen rehearses the graduation drama of that year In 1983, Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" made its debut in China. It was the graduation drama of the 83rd Opera Department of the Central Conservatory of Music under the command of Wu Lingfen. The first performance was in Chinese. Once performed, it was a great success and aroused widespread concern in the society. After graduation, these students shine on the international opera stage. At the beginning of this year, Zheng Xiaoying proposed to rehearse the Chinese version of Figaro's Marriage, and invited Wu Lingfen, who was the first conductor in 1983, and the original staff of the 83rd Opera Department of the Central Conservatory of Music to gather in Xiamen to start the rehearse project. Forty one years ago, they were the world's youngest cast of "Marriage of Figaro", and the average age of the main creators and starring team was only 26 years old; After 41, they are the world's oldest "Marriage of Figaro" crew. These singers rehearse for 8 to 10 hours every day, which is quite difficult for young actors, but Wu Lingfen and the singers enjoy it. Liu Keqing, the baritone singer who plays Figaro, is also the director of the rehearsal. "In fact, my job is to string together the lines, lines of action, plot, etc. of the performance that year." Liu Keqing said that the students of the 83rd Opera Department all have high basic skills and years of accumulated experience on the stage. Therefore, whether it is bass, midrange or treble, after 41 years, they can still sing the lines in the play to perfection, so that the audience can feel the beautiful timbre. On the evening of the 10th, Jiang Ying's son Qian Yonggang also came to the performance to review the classic charm of singing by his mother 41 years ago. Ignite the torch of "Singing in Foreign Opera" again to inherit the painstaking work It is understood that the first generation of professionally trained opera talents in China stepped onto the professional opera stage from the Marriage of Figaro to the international opera stage. As a work that coagulates the efforts of the older generation of opera people, Marriage of Figaro has created a new pattern of the development of Chinese opera in the new era. "Today, our enthusiasm for the Chinese version of" Marriage of Figaro "in 1983 is to rekindle the torch of" singing in foreign opera ", inherit the painstaking work of the older generation of opera performing artists, and carry forward the fine tradition of singing Western classical opera in Chinese," said Zheng Xiaoying. Zheng Xiaoying Opera Art Center has been promoting Chinese excellent operas in the way of "incubator" and actively promoting the western classical opera "singing in foreign operas". Over the past year, the Center has cooperated with 40 opera performing artists to create and perform the Chinese versions of the classic western operas "La Traviata", "Happy Widow", "Lord Papa's Marriage" and "Rigoletto". This "Marriage of Figaro" is a grand opera created by means of comic opera. There are many wonderful multipart duets in the opera. Mozart uses music to create different characters with different personalities, which are vivid and vivid. The Chinese version of "Marriage of Figaro" will be transferred to Fuzhou Fujian Grand Theater on May 15, and will also return to Peking University and the Central Conservatory of Music to perform in June. At that time, the Central Conservatory of Music will send a group of students to perform together, so that young people can learn to interpret good musical works in "Chinese". Before the first performance of the opera in Xiamen, Zheng Xiaoying Opera Art Center held the first opera art sharing meeting for the public in the newly renovated Philharmonic Hall. The purpose is to enable everyone to have a certain understanding of the ideology and artistry of opera before entering the opera house, and to enjoy opera with a certain knowledge reserve. | 
