2013165438+1On the evening of 9 October, the 13th Drama Festival opened in Suzhou Culture and Art Center. Famous Peking Opera artists Zhang Chunhua and Du Jinfang, Yue Opera artists Zheng Rong and Lan Tianye, Yue Opera artists Xu Yulan and Shao Opera artists Zhang won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 20 13 China Drama Festival. The winning artists are all over 80 years old, while Xu Yulan and Zhang are both over 90 years old.
92-year-old Xu Yulan personally attended the ceremony to receive the award. Teacher Xu Yulan said excitedly that this honor is an affirmation of his work. Although he is old, as long as he has energy and spare capacity, he will definitely fight for the cause of Yue Opera for life. At the same time, she pointed out that there are many problems in the development of China's drama, with more and more types of entertainment and fewer and fewer people watching the drama; Some dramatists do not practice or sing at ordinary times, and are seriously divorced from the masses; The investment in theater venue construction and personnel training has not kept up, and the hard training and low wages of theater actors have scared away many young people.
This drama festival is co-sponsored by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Chinese Dramatists Association and Suzhou Municipal People's Government. From 9th to 25th, there will be 29 participating plays and 6 performing plays from 35 national art groups, involving 27 operas, including well-known operas such as Kunqu Opera, Beijing Opera, Yue Opera, Shanghai Opera, Henan Opera, Huangmei Opera and Tin Opera, as well as operas that are not well known to the public but have local characteristics.