On The Artistic Feature Of National Opera "Canal Ballad"

Under the influence of western music, the Chinese national opera has experienced different development period from 1920 s, under the constant exploration and innovation of the artists. Chinese artists in the creation technique in addition to the use of some of the tactics of the western opera, still absorbed traditional technique of drama creation and folk art and modern drama performance elements, such as has the milestone of Chinese Opera National Opera "white haired girl" and "Honghu", "sister Jiang", "wilderness", the spring wildfire fighting city "," Mulan Psalm "and other works, the works of these representative presents China’s different development periods of the national opera. National Opera "canal ballad" is by the National Grand Theater, the creator who devoted to the creation of "the first original national opera", is composed by the famous composer Yinqing, playwright Huang Weiruo, Dong Ni couple writers, the famous director Liao Xianghong directed Opera will use the native and modern closely integrated with the modern opera creation of superb techniques, both from the content creation or the creation technique have new breakthrough and innovation, especially singing method is uniformly folk singing and in the creative elements of music and costumes applications are very ethnic flavor and meaning. National Opera "canal ballad" story is happened in the Ming Dynasty Wanli, to sing a song for the water lotus, Jiangnan scholar Qin Xiaosheng and blind Guan Yanyan stretches thousands of miles of the Grand Canal on the moving story.The through its own for opera learning and understanding, the full text is divided into into five sections of the canal ballad "artistic features were discussed. The first chapter mainly to the twenty-first century as a watershed will be a summary of the development of China’s national opera, the second chapter from the writing style of opera "canal ballad" creative background and songwriter discusses the characteristics of his writing. The third chapter and the fourth chapter of the opera "canal ballad" characters shape, performance characteristics, musical characteristics and main aria singing analysis. In the fifth chapter, through the analysis of the opera choreography design analysis and clothing props, such as the use of hand look at the future development of China’s national opera.