The song "Butterfly Lovers" has touched the romantic feelings of many Chinese and foreign audiences. Last night, the tragic story and immortal melody of "Butterfly Lovers" turned into colorful butterflies flying above the ballet stage, attracting attention.

The new ballet work "Butterfly Lovers" is based on full respect for folk tales and the use of the main melody of the violin concerto of the same name. It is boldly adapted and innovated with a modern perspective, bringing new audio-visual enjoyment to the audience. The structure of "*** Reading", "Farewell", "Resistance to Marriage" and "Butterfly Transformation" is also a classic four-act framework borrowed from opera works, but innovations can be seen everywhere. Ma Wencai appears as a playboy in "*** Reading", and in the third act, he becomes the antagonist who colludes with the feudal forces and obstructs Liang Zhu's love. The struggle between good and evil, beauty and ugliness is more direct. Composer Xu Jianqiang used Yue Opera music with a strong Jiangnan style as the basic melody framework, and performed the 25-minute song "Butterfly Lovers" into an ups and downs ballet symphony work, which shows his skill. The stage design and costumes are also a highlight. The four scenes set up according to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter cleverly match the tone of the whole play from joy to sorrow. The improved Chinese ballet costumes and "butterfly" costumes worn by the main actors also basically meet the requirements for expressive expression. The dance vocabulary of the main actors strives to reveal the inner emotional world of the characters, especially the dance of butterflies of different colors to symbolize and set off the love of Butterfly Lovers, which is also an attempt worthy of recognition.

Some experts believe that the starting point for artistic innovation in the ballet "Butterfly Lovers" is not low, but it is still "preliminary". There is still a lot of room for adjustments and refinements in various artistic departments of the whole play. For example, many viewers did not understand the "switching" between the "Dream of Britain and Taiwan" and reality in the first act. Can it be explained more clearly with the help of changes in lighting and dance sequences? The "Eighteen-year-old Farewell" scene seems not to have been done enough. , the "Butterfly Group Dance" is also a bit over-the-top, and the lingering emotions of Butterfly Lovers' "turning back one step at a time" are not matched with the corresponding dance segments; after Zhu Yingtai's "Crashing the Grave", it seems that the characteristics of the romantic imagination of the ballet can be used, so that the hero and heroine can express themselves with each other. A pas de deux intensifies its tragic tone, which may be more memorable than the sudden opening of the tomb and the sudden change to a stage full of colorful butterflies.

Although it is not perfect, after several years of hard work, the artists finally made it "stand up" on the stage of original ballet. I believe that with further refinements in the future, this "Chinese butterfly" will fly higher