Zhang Huoding, a famous Peking Opera performing artist, has been running the "Zhang Huoding Peking Opera Chengpai Artistic Talent Workshop" at the China Academy of Performing Arts for several years, and the Chengpai students selected and recruited from all over the country have achieved considerable growth and are reflected on the stage. One of Zhang Huoding's disciples, Li Linxiao, an outstanding young actor of the Cheng Pai of the Beijing Peking Opera House, will hold a special performance at the Chang'an Grand Theater for the third time on May 7 and 8, presenting the audience with the famous Cheng Pai dramas "The Legend of the White Snake" and "Suolin Capsule", and the ticket will be officially opened on March 23.
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. She has been diligent and diligent in the study of Peking Opera Danjiao, from small to large, from local to national awards, small plum blossoms, Qingjing Competition, Xuejing Competition and other major competitions have been included in the pocket. She was admitted to the China Opera Academy at the age of 18, entered the Beijing Opera House after graduation, and then entered the China Opera Academy for graduate school, and met Mr. Zhang Huoding under the recommendation of Teacher Meng Xianyao, and then entered the "Zhang Huoding Peking Opera Chengpai Artistic Talent Workshop" with her strength, and accepted Zhang Huoding's "one-on-one" teaching and art transmission.
No matter who he learns from, Li Linxiao has always been striving for excellence and studying hard in the business. In the past nine years, Li Linxiao has studied with Zhang Huoding the traditional plays of the Cheng School, "Suolin Capsule", "Spring Dream", "Tears of the Barren Mountain", "Sitting Palace", "Red Mane Horse", "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang", "Wen Ji Gui Han", 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". In 2019 and 2021, she twice held a personal special performance at the Chang'an Grand Theater in Beijing, "The Legend of the White Snake" and "Spring Dream", all three of which were full of seats and received unanimous praise from all walks of life.
Li Linxiao
For this special performance, Li Linxiao deliberately chose "Suolin Capsule" and "The Legend of the White Snake". These two plays are still directed by the famous Peking Opera performance artist Ye Shaolan, as well as the famous Peking Opera artists Zhang Huoding and Song Xiaochuan, and the famous organist Zhao Yu as the music director. In addition, Yan Xiaoyusi drummer, an outstanding young drummer of Beijing Peking Opera, Zhang Yiping, an outstanding young pianist, played the piano, and Yang Nan, a national first-class actor and outstanding Ye Pai Xiaosheng of Shanghai Peking Opera House, was specially invited to play Xu Xian. In addition, there are also the famous ugly Mei Qingyang of the Beijing Opera House, the national first-class actor Wei Xuelei, the outstanding young actors Meng Xianteng, Qiu Zhi, Zhao Qian, Bao Yan, Yu Xinze Sun Shimin, You Yaying and so on to help perform.
Li Linxiao and Teacher Huo Ding
"Suolin Capsule" is a masterpiece of Cheng Pai that the audience is familiar with, but it is also a very test for actors. Li Linxiao said that every time he reinterprets the traditional classics is a challenge, "because everyone is too familiar, even if you can't act well in a small section, the audience can see it." "The Legend of the White Snake" is a Cheng Pai drama adapted and arranged by Zhang Huoding on the basis of previous artists. There are very few plays that can be seen on the current Peking Opera stage that the Cheng School has both culture and martial arts, and Zhang Huoding has enriched the stage presentation of the Cheng School of Peking Opera through this play, and Li Linxiao, as a disciple, naturally spares no effort to inherit the classics. In the 2019 solo special, she once performed "The Legend of the White Snake", she said: "From the performance to the expression of the characters, Teacher Huo Ding poured too much effort into me. Every performance is a new life for me, and I very much hope that everyone can see my growth in art. ”
This performance, jointly organized by Beijing Peking Opera House and Beijing Shangde Wuwei Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., is a commercial performance that adopts market-oriented operation. At present, although the commercial operation of self-financing is not easy for young actors, in Li Linxiao's view, this is a tribute to the previous generation of artists, "The teacher was a pioneer in pushing himself to the market, I want to invite the audience to test the results of my art from the teacher, strive for greater progress in art, and also contribute to the promotion of the excellent traditional culture of the motherland." ”