Zhou Zhengping

renowned stage and lighting designer, is a State 1^st Grade Stage Designer of China (2^nd Grade Professor). He is one of the Famous Cultural Experts and People with Ability of China, a leading person in philosophy and social sciences area in the China’s Expert Support Program and an expert receiving special allowance from the State Council. Zhou Zhengping is Vice President of China Institute of Stage Design, Deputy Director of the Stage, Movie and TV Lighting Committee of China Illuminating Engineering Society, Vice Chairman of Zhejiang Provincial Dramatists Association, President of Zhejiang Association of Stage Design, Director of the Genre Art Production and Research Center of Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Culture & Art, and Distinguished Expert Member of the Master/PhD Assessment Committee of the Central Academy of Drama. He has been the stage and lighting designer for more than four hundred stage plays of over sixty kinds of operas. His works have been displayed in four PQs (Prague Quadrennial) and three WSDs (World Stage Design Exhibition). He won the Silver Award for Lighting Design in the 4^th WSD in 2017. He has received Wenhua Stage Design Award, the highest award from the Chinese government for eight times, Outstanding Stage Design Award and Outstanding Lighting Design Award in China Opera Festival for eight times, China Drama Golden Lion Award, Award for Outstanding Lighting Design in the 1^st China Opera Festival, the National Children’s Drama Tour and China Peking Opera Festival, and Award for Work in the 2^nd Stage Art Exhibition of China.

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 Opera named Manas

Scriptwriter: Wang Xiaoling

Director: Wang Yansong

Stage Design: Ma Lianqing

Lighting Design: Zhou Zhengping

Time and venue of premiere: September 2017 in Beijing Tianqiao Theatre

Creation of situations. Lighting creates emotions and conditions on stages. With light spectrum elements permeate throughout the whole performance area, the independent stagecraft elements, such as stage setting and property, are integrated into an organic theatric space. The colors and brightness of light change in line with music and plots, floating, penetrating or exciting from time to time, thus creating a world of images with harmonious integration of feelings and settings to convey emotions of dramas and operas.

Construction of characters. Lighting highlights the body and soul of characters. It not only depicts the physical image of Manas but also focuses on exploring the spiritual realm of Manas. Lighting demonstrates a heroic atmosphere of vigor, masculinity and glory. The divine soul of Manas is illustrated by lighting and shadows, which fulfill the visual expression of the character’s soul and arouse resonance from the hearts of audience.

Participation in narration. Lighting, which is integrated into the opera structure of reciting and chanting, participates with flexible and various forms in the stream of consciousness expression on the stage narration. The poetic free imagination and marvelous lighting unfolds the magnificent epic chapters, expressing concepts on time and space and adding romantic sentiment. This is a new form of Chinese folk opera full of masculine beauty with the charm of divine narration by Manas.

Yue opera named The Peach Blossom Fan

Stage Design: Liu Xinglin

The theatrical style of this Yue Opera named The Peach Blossom Fan features simplicity, elegance and implication. Its lighting design tries to be expressive, ethereal and poetic, which is not only the modern expression of Chinese classical aestheticism but also the theatrical demonstration of traditional oriental aesthetics.

The stagecraft elements of this opera are highly exquisite and extremely minimal, with the main background remaining unchanged throughout the performance. The adoption of classical elements in a modern way, such as withering lotuses and window lattices, presents a balanced beauty between elegance and grace. Lighting permeates among all stagecraft elements to fulfill the role of theatrical languages in a precise, rich and smooth way, such as transition of scenes, guidance to narration, depiction of characters, exploration of psychology, creation of circumstances and heightening of atmosphere. Lighting manages to cultivate emblematic languages and convey fantastic oriental flavor.

Lighting in this opera named The Peach Blossom Fan, instead of functioning as lighting only, is already an inseparable part of the opera itself. As an emblem of art, lighting is expected to serve and integrate into an opera itself, enriching and extending the creation and expression of its director. Lighting adopted in The Peach Blossom Fan not only represents the expressive feature of Chinese operas and lyrical style of Yue opera but also enhances and stimulates the internal beauty of the opera itself by modern aesthetic means.

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周正平

当代著名舞美灯光设计家，国家一级舞美设计师（二级教授），“全国文化名家暨四个一批人才”，“国家万人计划”哲学社会科学领军人才，享受国务院特殊津贴专家。现任中国舞台美术学会副会长，中国照明学会舞台影视照明专业委员会副主任，浙江省戏剧家协会副主席，浙江省舞台美术学会会长，浙江省文化艺术研究院场景艺术创研中心主任，中央戏剧学院特聘硕博评审委员会专家委员。至今己为六十多个剧种四百多部舞台剧担任舞美灯光设计。作品曾参加过四届PQ展和三届WSD世界剧场设计展，个人曾获2017WSD第四届世界剧场设计展“灯光设计银奖”，八次获中国文化政府最高奖“文华舞美设计奖”。八次获中国戏剧节“优秀舞美奖”或“优秀灯光设计奖”、获中国话剧“金狮奖” ，首届中国歌剧节、全国儿童剧展演、中国京剧艺术节获“优秀灯光设计奖”，获中国第二届舞台美术展览“作品大奖”。 

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 歌剧《玛纳斯》

编剧：王晓岭 

导演：王延松

作曲：许舒亚

舞美设计：马连庆

灯光设计：周正平

中国中央歌剧院

首演2017年9月北京天桥剧场

情境的营造。灯光营造舞台的“情”和“境”，光谱分子弥漫在整个演出区域，将布景、造具等独立的舞台元素融为一个有机的戏剧空间；光的色彩、明暗，随音乐、情节而变化，时而轻盈、时而通透、时而激荡，营造出一个情景交融的意象世界，传达戏剧情感。

人物的塑造。灯光突显人物的“形”及“神”，灯光在着墨于玛纳斯形象的刻画的同时，重点聚焦于玛纳斯精神世界的开掘，凸显一种刚劲、雄强、壮烈的英雄气韵，在光影中映衬出玛纳斯的神性灵魂，完成人物灵魂的视觉化表达，引发观众心灵的共鸣。

叙事的参与。灯光融入到歌剧的“宣叙”和“咏叹”结构中，灵活多变参与舞台叙事的意识流化表达。既表达时空概念，又渲染浪漫情调，以诗意的畅想，以恢弘的灯光，展开恢弘壮阔的史诗画卷。这是一种借助玛纳斯神性叙事魅力，充溢着阳刚之美的中国民族歌剧的新样式。

越剧《桃花扇》

作品所属团体：南京市越剧团  南京市安琪新越坊艺术研究院

越剧《桃花扇》的舞美元素精巧极简，主体背景一镜到底，残荷、窗棂等古典元素的现代运用，呈现出一种典雅与优美之间的平衡之美。灯光弥漫其中，参与完成了场景转化、叙事引导、形象刻画、心理开掘、情景营造、气氛渲染等一些列戏剧语汇，准确到位、意蕴丰富、节奏流畅，营造出一种光的象征性语汇，传递出东方神韵。

越剧《桃花扇》的灯光不单是灯光本身，而是戏剧不可分割的一部分。灯光作为一种艺术符号，必须服务于戏剧本体，要有机地融入戏剧本体当中，丰富和延伸导演的创作表达。《桃花扇》的灯光表达契合了中国戏曲的写意性精神和越剧的抒情性风格，并在此基础上，用现代审美强化和激发戏剧本体内涵的美。

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