Xiantao is a professional ancient painting troupe, which belongs to a financial institution with financial allocation. Now it has fixed assets of nearly 10 million yuan, cast members 1 18, including second-class actors 15, second-class composers/5, second-class directors 1 and second-class dancers. Equipped with special performance bus, mobile stage car, snow machine, fog machine, computer subtitles, computer switch lights and other high-tech stage performance equipment. At present, the theater has stepped into the benign track of synchronous development of opera, song and dance and sketch, and has become an influential comprehensive professional art troupe in the province.
The troupe was originally composed of 19 traditional Chinese opera artists, including You, Hu Shunxing, Gong and Liu. It was registered in Biyang County on 195 1, and was renamed United Chu Troupe when it was managed.
Founded in 1956, the troupe has now developed into a professional art performance group with fixed assets of 128 people and cast members.
1May, 956, officially named Mianyang Ancient Painting Troupe.
In the past 50 years, the troupe has not only sung all over the countryside, but also evolved into Zhongnanhai. It has been well received by Zhu De, Li Desheng, Wang Ping, Wang, Cao Yu, Yu Xiaoyu and other leaders and authoritative figures in the field of traditional Chinese opera.
1979 The newly edited large-scale Zhuang Qing drama Thirteen Pieces participated in the rehearsal in Jingzhou area to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and won the first prize for script creation and performance. 1979 The drama "Little Resolute" participated in the performance of Hubei Creative Drama Award and won the first prize of creative performance.
1980 was recorded as a TV movie by Hubei TV station, and at the same time, the TV movie of the modern drama "Good in-laws" was recorded and played in Hubei and CCTV successively.
1982 1 1 The modern drama "Husband to the Third Child" participated in the Hubei Provincial Drama Creation Award and won the second prize for creation and the first prize for performance. 1988 was transferred to Zhongnanhai, Beijing for performance.
1987 The drama "Send Fragrant Tea" won the first prize in performance, script adaptation, director and music design by participating in the evaluation of professional troupes in five central and southern provinces.
1September, 1988, at the invitation of China Drama and Modern Drama Research Association and Drama Criticism, he went to Beijing to perform, and the traditional drama "Send Sweet Tea" and the large-scale modern drama "Bring Husband to the Third Child" evolved into Zhongnanhai to participate in the performance of China Art Festival (South China Film).
1990 The Legend of the White Fox, a new costume drama, participated in the first Jingzhou Ancient Painting and Opera Art Festival in Hubei Province and won the performance, script, excellent music, excellent director and beautiful dance award; The newly edited large-scale modern drama Clay Sculpture won the performance award, script award, excellent director award, excellent dance beauty award and music award.
1996 was named as the ancient painting theater by Mianyang, Hubei province, and the troupe was repeatedly rated as "a hundred regiments going to the countryside" by the Hubei Provincial Department of Culture, and it was an advanced collective.
1998 "New Modern Drama after Laid-off" participated in the new drama exhibition in Hubei Province and won the performance award.
200 1 Transplanted and adapted the opera "Visiting Friends" to participate in the TV show of the new drama in the province and won the third prize.
During the period of 2000-200 1, Yang Zijiang Audio-Visual Publishing House recorded eight major dramas, such as Thirteen Verses and Mo Chounv, and five minor dramas, such as Cutting the Classroom and Jigong Downhill, into VCD discs, which were distributed to domestic and foreign audiences.
In 2002, the large-scale modern drama "Black Exclamation Point", which was created and adapted, was published by seven departments and bureaus including the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, and toured the province, causing strong repercussions and becoming the key repertoire of drug control and ideological education for minors in the province.
In 2005, Jiang Jie, a large-scale drama transplanted and adapted, became a must-see play for advanced education in party member.
In 2006, the large-scale drama "Peach Blossom" won the second prize of screenwriter, director, music creation and protagonist in the 8th Chutian Wenhua Award in Hubei.
In 2000, the head of the delegation, Chen Guang, was rated as a national advanced cultural worker and was cordially received by party and state leaders Zhu Rongji and Li Lanqing in the Great Hall of the People. Troupe 15 was awarded "Advanced Collective of Hundred Groups Going to the Countryside" by the Provincial Department of Culture.
In 2000, the troupe was awarded the "National Advanced Collective of Marriage and Childbearing Activities".
In 2003, Cheng Qiong, a national second-class actress, won the Peony Flower Award of the 6th Drama in Hubei Province.
In 2004 and 2006, Yan, a national second-class actor, was named as a model worker and one of the top ten cultural celebrities in the city.
Since the new century, through deepening the reform, the theater has now become a comprehensive art troupe integrating various performance forms such as song and dance, opera and sketch. In 2003, the essay "There is nothing wrong with snow" for traffic police won the first prize of public security system.
In 2004, the essay "Leaving Couplets" created in cooperation with the Local Taxation Bureau won the first prize in the performance of the provincial tax system;
In 2003 and 2005, the essay "Marriage Requisition" and the song and dance "A New Chapter of huaxin cement Spectrum" created for Huaxin Group Xiantao Company won the second prize.
In 2005, the essay "Audit Report" created for the Municipal State Taxation Bureau won the first prize of the province's tax system performance. The theater also cooperated with the Municipal Family Planning Commission, the Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau, the Municipal Association for Science and Technology, China Unicom Xiantao Company and other units to create more than 20 sketches and undertake nearly 30 large-scale song and dance parties.
In 2008, at the first Hubei Local Opera Art Festival, the troupe selected the large-scale costume flower-drum drama "Declining the Official", the traditional passbook drama "Chen Lin Kao Kou" and the modern drama "Old Neighbor", which stood out and showed Jingchu. With its accumulated artistic level and vivid performance strength, it won 14 awards in one fell swoop. In particular, The Story of Officials' Demotion won three artistic laurels: Excellent Transplant Drama Award, First Prize of Music Creation and First Prize of Actor Performance.
20 10 Hubei Jingzhou ancient painting and opera art festival, a large-scale new modern ancient painting opera Guliupo won the drama award of the art festival, and the play also won the third prize of screenwriter, director, composer and dancer.
Since the beginning of this year, the troupe has performed in the countryside in the form of "the opera starts with a gun, and the song and dance ends with a gun", which has made the broad masses of peasants appreciate the intoxicating charm of ancient paintings and operas and the attractive fragrance of modern musicals, greatly enriching the cultural life of the grassroots.