On the evening of December 8, Wang Ruoding, a young Peking opera Kunsheng who stood on top of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, presented "Wu Zixu" to the audience in the capital. Wu Zixu, who she plays, looks handsome, has a good tone and a mellow charm; her voice is relaxed and her words are clear. With emotional voice and aphrodisiac, she interpreted the inner emotions of the characters with emotions and received full applause from the audience.
"Wu Zixu" is one of the exhibitions of the Beijing Opera House excavating and sorting out the lost plays, including "Wen Zhaoguan", "Huan Sha Ji", "Fish Intestine Sword", "Thorn King Staff" and other folds, played by outstanding young Peking Opera actor Wang Ruoding, and excellent Qiu Pai flower face actor Fang Xu played Ji Yuan. In the fold of "Wen Zhaoguan", "In front of a round of bright moon shining on the window, the sad people's hearts are like arrows piercing" two sentences, Wang Ruoding sang Wu Zixu's complex feelings of both grief and grief with a strong and sad singing voice; "It is difficult to close the eyes in his heart, and he turned over and over to sleep uneasily" The rhythm gradually accelerated at this stage, Wang Ruoding's characters were pearlescent, full of emotions, and his voice was high-pitched, and the sentence "Daddy" was full of color; the sentence "Chicken Dog Barking Five More Days" and the sentence "Upstairs" rushed into the sky, expressing Wu Zixu's sad and indignant mood to the fullest, "Speaking to whom?" The three characters were handled by Wang Ruoding in a clever and chic and sophisticated way, which further expressed Wu Zixu's inner emotions. In the compromise of "Huan Sha", "I have not spoken that my heart is sad, and my eyes cannot stop crying" This period of Xipi Erliu Wang Ruoding is not impatient and reasonable, and tells Wu Zixu's past story, sincerely. In the fold of "Fish Intestine Sword", the "Zixu Valve Reading the Lintel, Who Knows the Fallen Heaven", the anti-Xipi scattered board that tests the singing skills, Wang Ruoding sang euphemistically and complained, and won the color continuously.
Wang Ruoding was born in a family of Peking Opera, and in an environment full of ears, she has had a strong interest in Peking Opera since she was a child, and was admitted to the Affiliated High School of the China Academy of Performing Arts in 2009 and officially began to study Peking Opera. She successively learned Peking Opera from Li Chongshan, Zhao Shipu, Li Jian, Jia Jinsong, Du Peng, Han Shengcun, Du Peng (Primary) teachers, and joined the school's Children's Peking Opera Troupe, successfully performed more plays, and practiced solid basic skills. In 2015, Wang Ruoding was sent to the China Academy of Performing Arts for her excellent results, and during her studies, she participated in the selection and performance of Shanghai Magnolia, and actively participated in the performance, and she can be seen in major theaters in Beijing. Wang Ruoding graduated from the China Academy of Performing Arts in 2019 and entered the Beijing Opera House to become a Peking Opera actor as he wished.
Wang Ruoding performed hundreds of performances during his school years, and served as the protagonist of the plays "Big Detective II", "Lost Emptiness And Chop", "Shilang Visiting Mother", "Red Mane Horse", "Bumping Monument", "Famen Temple", "Wu Zixu", "Catching and Releasing Cao", "Hongyang Cave", "Wu Peng Ji", "Zhu Curtain Zhai", "Searching for Orphans and Saving Orphans", "Three Dozen Zhujiazhuang", etc., and won the Bronze Medal of the Second National Wenhua Art Academy Award in 2014, the Silver Medal of the Peking Opera Youth Group of the National Opera Cup in 2018, and the 2018 Magnolia Newcomer Award.
Wang Ruoding said that he was most grateful to his mentor, Mr. Li Chongshan. In December 2020, she officially visited the famous Peking Opera performance artist Li Chongshan as her teacher, and learned from her master such plays as "Searching for Orphans and Saving Orphans", "HongYang Cave", "Drumming and Scolding Cao", "Dingjun Mountain", "Zhu Curtain Village", "Shilang Visiting Mother", "Lost Empty Chop" and other plays. Whenever he mentioned The Master, Wang Ruoding expressed his gratitude and admiration, and took the teacher's art and character as his benchmark. And her diligence has also been praised and recognized by Mr. Li Chongshan, saying that she is down-to-earth and willing to learn, can bear hardships, and has excellent morals.
Wang Ruoding is a "post-95", and his identity as a young Kunsheng has attracted much attention, bringing new blood to the development of Peking Opera. Wang Ruoding also uses social platforms to promote and disseminate Peking Opera, and she hopes that the national essence of Peking Opera will better integrate with the times and move towards a more brilliant tomorrow.
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