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Children show promise of inheriting Huju Opera
By:Huang Ziling, Zheng Qian  |  From:english.eastday.com  |  2019-08-01 11:09

The 2019 Shanghai Student Huju Opera Competition has selected a number of outstanding children after three rounds of competition. The award ceremony was held at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center on July 29.

Beginning with Singing a Folk Song to the Party, the ceremony has three themed parts: Jiangnan Culture, Shanghai Culture and Red Culture. With the help of young actors from the Shanghai Huju Opera Theater, the children’s performances were startlingly impressive and met with thunderous applause, giving audiences confidence in the opera’s future inheritance.

“An opera’s development needs not only actors but also audiences. Maybe the children won't take up a Huju opera career in the future, but they may become fans or even promoters of it,” said Mao Shanyu, president of the Shanghai Huju Opera Theater.

To promote the development of the Shanghai opera, in recent years, Shanghai Huju Opera theatre has arranged lots of experts to tutor in schools across the city. Not only are local children interested in the Huju opera, but also children from all over the country and even abroad have begun to learn and sing it.

Like the private award winners of the previous Huju opera competitions, the winners of this year’s individual “Safflower Award”, will also be included in the theater’s Huju Opera talents reserve, and be issued a certificate of “Future Star of Huju Opera”.

Regarding future plans, Mao introduced that another children’s Huju opera troupe is scheduled to be set up. “In August, the Huju opera film Thunderstorm will be released. Outstanding young contestants will have the opportunity to participate in the premiere and also be guest performers at this year’s Huju Opera Art Festival.”

Moreover, the theatre will continue to organize the “Huju Opera Rehearsal Open Day” for youngsters to enjoy a free performance ahead of the formal one.

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