Beijing News (reporter Liu Zhen) Zhang Huoding disciple, Beijing Peking Opera House Cheng Pai outstanding young actor Li Linxiao special performance, will be staged on May 7, 8 at the Chang'an Grand Theater, when the audience will be presented with cheng Pai's famous drama "The Legend of the White Snake" and "Suolin Capsule". The show will officially be opened on March 23.
Stills from the Peking opera "The Legend of the White Snake".
Li Linxiao (formerly known as Li Li) attended the Tianjin Art School at an early age, where he studied under Meng Xianyao, Chen Qi, Zhang Manling, Chi Xiaoqiu, Li Wenmin, Zhang Huoding, Chen Cuirong, Shen Jianjin and other famous Peking opera artists, and was admitted to the China Academy of Opera at the age of 18. In 2010, Li Linxiao won the gold medal of CCTV's first Xuejing Competition and entered the Beijing Opera House; in 2012, Li Linxiao met Zhang Huoding under the recommendation of Meng Xianyao. In November 2015, the "Zhang Huoding Peking Opera Chengpai Art Inheritance Center" of the China Drama Academy was officially established, and then the "Zhang Huoding Peking Opera Chengpai Artistic Talent Workshop" was opened, which recruited ten Chengpai students for the whole country, accepted Zhang Huoding's "one-on-one" teaching and art transmission, and Li Linxiao joined the ranks of students. Li Linxiao studied with Zhang Huoding the traditional Cheng Pai plays "Suolin Capsule", "Spring Dream", "Tears of the Barren Mountain", "Sitting Palace", "Red-maned Horse", "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang", "Wen Ji Guihan", and "Mandarin Duck Tomb", in addition, Zhang Huoding also taught her newly edited representative plays "The Legend of the White Snake", "Sister Jiang", and "Liang Zhu".
Li Linxiao accepted Zhang Huoding's teachings on the art.
In this special performance, Li Linxiao chose "Suolin Capsule" and "The Legend of the White Snake", which were performed by Peking Opera performance artist Ye Shaolan and Peking Opera masters Zhang Huoding and Song Xiaochuan as artistic directors, organist Zhao Yu as music directors, Beijing Peking Opera Young Drummer Yan Xiaoyusi Drummer, young pianist Zhang Yiping playing the piano, and specially invited Yang Nan, a national first-class actor and Ye Pai Xiaosheng of Shanghai Peking Opera, to play Xu Xian. There are also the famous ugly Mei Qingyang of the Beijing Opera House to support the younger generation, the national first-class actor Wei Xuelei, the young actor Meng Xianteng, Qiu Zhi, Zhao Qian, Bao Yan, Yu Xinze, Sun Shimin, You Yaying and other assistants.
"Suolin Capsule" is a masterpiece of the Cheng School, created in 1921, is a classic century-old play that has been sung for thousands of years. Li Linxiao believes that this play is very testing for actors, "because everyone is too familiar, even if a small section is not good, the audience can see it." The play "The Legend of the White Snake" is a Cheng Pai play adapted and arranged by Zhang Huoding on the basis of the previous artists, Zhang Huoding enriched the stage presentation of the Cheng School of Peking Opera through this Cheng School of culture and martial arts, and Li Linxiao, as a disciple of Zhang Huoding, said that he would spare no effort to inherit the classics.
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen
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