Jin Caifeng, a famous Yue opera performance artist and founder of the Yue opera Jinpai, passed away at 10:45 this morning at the central hospital of Xuhui District in Shanghai at the age of 92.
Famous Yue opera performance artist Jin Caifeng
Jinpai is a genre of Yue opera Danjiao founded by Jin Caifeng. Jin Caifeng, formerly known as Jin Cuifeng, was born in Shanghai in November 1930 in Yin County, Zhejiang Province, and was admitted to the training class of the Xuesheng Theater Troupe in 1946. Later, Jin Caifeng transferred to dongshan yue art society to play Danjiao, together with Lu Ruiying and Ding Saijun, known as the "Dongshan" sanding armor. In the summer of 1951, he entered the Yue Opera Troupe of the East China Opera Research Institute, and in 1955, he joined the newly built Shanghai Yue Opera House.
"Time to Retain Gold- Golden Caifeng Yue Opera Art Special" (2009)
Jin Caifeng's singing voice inherits the Yuan (Xuefen) school, and absorbs the vocal cavity components of Shi Yinhua and Fu Quanxiang, and also absorbs the mellowness of Fan Ruijuan's singing cavity, which is integrated and self-contained, and is recognized as the "Golden School".
Played Cui Yingying in "The Tale of the West Chamber"
She is good at playing everyone's boudoir show, singing tactfully reverberating, euphemistic and smooth, rigid and soft, and full of charm. She is also good at Qingyi, performing delicate and timeless, good at portraying the inner feelings of the characters, and has created many artistic models of ancient women with different personalities and charms on the stage, and has also played the image of modern women in different periods. She has sung Yuan Pai's famous dramas "Xi Xiang Ji" and "Xiang Lin Sister-in-law", and when singing, she not only maintained the euphemistic and smooth characteristics of Yuan Pai, but also played her own singing method with a brighter voice and stronger strength, giving the singing voice another artistic feature, which was called "Yuan Cavity Golden Singing" by musicians, which can also see the trajectory of genre inheritance and derivation.
With the Yue opera sisters, the front row is from left: Zhang Yunxia, Wang Xinghua, Jin Caifeng, back row: Yuan Xuefen and Qi Yaxian.
On the basis of inheriting the tradition, jin Caifeng constantly explores and creates new singing voices according to his own experience and understanding of the role, especially for the traditional four-work cavity, and enriches and develops them in terms of tone plate type and cavity treatment, so that it shines with new brilliance. Her singing cavity structure is rigorous, good at using different plate styles and rhythms, tones to lubricate the cavity, meticulously revealing the deep ripples of the characters' feelings, and the performance action and singing cavity music are closely interlocked, which can be seen in "Jasper Hairpin".
Jasper Hairpin SangaiYi Music: Jin Caifeng - Music Dictionary: Yue Opera - Jin Caifeng (3)
In 1962, he played Li Xiuying in "Jasper Hairpin"
From Yan Lanzhen to Xianglin Sister-in-law, from Jiang Shuiying to Xu Guangping, from Li Xiuying to Cui Yingying, repeatedly pondering, striving for excellence, meticulously carving the characters' hands and feet, costume details, and constantly exploring and creating the singing voice, making the old drama repeatedly performed, and she was also praised by the fans as "living Lanzhen" and "Shen Xiuying".
Stills of "Panfusov", Jin Caifeng as Yan Lanzhen, Xu Yulan as Zeng Rong
Source: Xinmin Evening News (reporter Zhao Yue)
Edit: Li Zheng