"Sister Lin fell from the sky, like a light cloud just emerged." The classic "Dream of Red Mansions", which has been sung by Shanghai Yue Theater for more than half a century, has now become a new element in the game.
On July 21, NetEase announced that it will cooperate with Shanghai Yue Opera "Dream of Red Mansions" to launch "Absolute Interpretation × Yue Opera "Dream of Red Mansions" linkage. Not only do Yue Opera performers sing through motion capture dubbing, they transform themselves into "card" images in the game, but mobile game fans can also learn singing skills together in the game and experience the beauty of costumes and traditional opera. The cross-border integration of Yue Opera characters and two-dimensional mobile games, traditional Yue Opera elements are injected into the game context, which makes traditional art and games play a new cross-border trick.

"Sister Lin Falls from the Sky"

The cooperation between Yue Opera "Dream of Red Mansions" and NetEase's mobile game has been brewing for a long time, and its carrier is a mobile online game created by NetEase with the background of the entertainment circle ecology and the theme of actor identity and personal acting career" Absolute interpretation", the whole game is also the player's experience of growing up as an actor, focusing on presenting the splendor of performing arts.
In this cooperation, the game has become the carrier of traditional Yue Opera culture. After clearing the customs, players will have the opportunity to be invited to the Shanghai Yue Opera Theatre to participate in the recording of the Yue Opera chapter of the new cultural and tourism variety show "The Wonderful Tour of China". By completing the Yue Opera challenge, players who have become female stars can also unlock publicity resources, so that more people can understand and love the quintessential Chinese opera culture.

Jia Baoyu

Lin Daiyu

In addition to the new variety show, there are also new scripts and three new linked masks - "sorrow" emotion UR [Lin Daiyu], "fear" emotion UR [Jia Baoyu], and "fear" emotion SR [Zijuan]. The exquisite new costumes of Baodai on the Yue Opera stage were also restored 1:1 through high-tech scanning technology.
In order to highly restore traditional art in the game, two young actors from Shanghai Yue Theater, Wang Wanna and Li Xudan, acted as motion capture for two classic roles, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, respectively. As the inheritors of the Xu style Xiaosheng art of Yue Opera and the Huadan art of Wang style, the two actors with excellent stage images also showed the beauty of Yue Opera to game lovers in their own way.

Wang Wanna and Li Xudan acted as motion capture for Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu respectively.

For the motion capture and dubbing involved in this game, the two Yue Opera actors themselves felt very novel. It is a very special experience to wear high-tech clothing, perform Yue Opera in a motion capture studio, and let your frowns, smiles and every move remain in the game image. Li Xudan said that in the game, players can not only experience Yue Opera costumes, but also participate in Yue Opera challenges, and even come to Shanghai Yue Theater as a guest. When they participate in the construction of virtual characters in games, they need to pay more attention to the movements and expressions of opera characters on the stage in order to capture them perfectly, make the characters in the virtual world real and vivid, and bring players an immersive interactive experience.
Wang Wanna, who is born in the 1990s, even said that the reason why Yue Opera "Dream of Red Mansions" is a classic is that it keeps advancing with the times and collides with various art forms in different eras to produce more brilliant sparks, and this integration with the game can also make More young players understand Yue Opera and listen to Yue Opera more.
Just as the Yue Opera "Dream of Red Mansions" was put on the game, a promotional video sung by Li Xudan and Wang Wanna "The National Team Opens: Sister Daiyu, You Sing to My Heart" also made it to the hot list at station B. There are 400,000 hits. Interestingly, in addition to many game fans who started to pay attention to Yue Opera, some Yue Opera fans also began to try to enter mobile games, clearing levels and fighting monsters in order to get the opportunity to participate in the activity of "Dream of Red Mansions".

Wang Wanna, Li Xudan

Shanghai Yue Opera Theatre said that this breaking circle cooperation is a deep integration of Yue Opera art and emerging media, and it is also the first attempt to digitize and virtualize the characters and elements of Yue Opera in the real world, and to present the stage and character effects of traditional opera. The actors and the audience are connected together through the constructed virtual space.
At present, traditional art is trying to enter the vision of Gen Z through various methods. At the beginning of this year, the game "Yuan Shen" has integrated traditional opera with two-dimensional cross-border, and many young opera players have attracted attention. The "Fu Pai" Huadan Qiu Danli of the Shanghai Yue Opera Theatre took to the stage to sing "Goddess Split View", which has been played over 1.35 million until the day before, capturing a lot of "Secondary Element" fans at Station B. In addition, Shanghai Yue Opera Theatre is also trying to launch more ways such as national style cultural and creative trendy products to add new "flow" to Yue Opera.