Cheng Men Rookie First Bloom Fanghua - Watching the excellent young actor Sha Fei starring in "Peacock Southeast Flying" has a feeling

Recently, the famous Cheng Pai drama "Peacock Flying Southeast" starring Sha Fei, an outstanding young actor of the Beijing Peking Opera House, is being staged in full swing. This is a tragic Cheng Pai drama, and it is also a classic famous drama that highlights the characteristics of Cheng Pai's artistic vocal cavity and performance style. This play is rarely seen on the stage in recent years, and it is starred by the Beijing Opera House and taught by the famous Cheng Pai Qingyi Chi Xiaoqiu, which has aroused the enthusiasm of many fans and audiences. As a powerful Chengpai rookie, Sha Fei lived up to expectations, first bloomed, and perfectly interpreted the classic drama of this Chengpai, which was widely praised and praised by everyone.

"Peacock Southeast Flying" Stills Photography Wang Dandan

Sha Fei graduated from the China Academy of Performing Arts and studied under Li Wenmin, Chi Xiaoqiu and other famous artists. In 2011, he studied under the famous opera educator Mr. Li Wenmin. Under the careful professorship of Mr. Li Wenmin, he has successively learned to act in classic plays of the Cheng school such as "Suolin Capsule", "Dou E'er", "Spring Dream", "Red Mane Fierce Horse", "Shilang Visiting Mother", "He Hou Scolding Hall", "Zhu Trace", "Three High-Fives", "Fenhe Bay" and other classic plays of the Cheng School. Under the strict and standardized systematic education and careful cultivation of Li Wenmin, Sha Fei gradually understood the artistic characteristics of the Cheng School, and mastered the artistic performance rules and vocal cavity singing methods of the Cheng School. Under the guidance of Li Wenmin, Sha Fei not only laid a solid foundation in art, but also stimulated a strong interest in studying chengpai art, and was determined to be an excellent inheritor of chengpai art. In 2016, in order to cultivate outstanding young talents, the Beijing Opera House deployed Sha Fei to the Youth League, and since then, it has begun to learn cheng school art with Chi Xiaoqiu, an outstanding descendant of the contemporary Cheng school. Sha Fei attaches great importance to this particularly rare opportunity to study and improve his personal artistic level, whenever the teacher has rehearsals and performances, Sha Fei, as a student, always observes carefully, often uses the interval between performances and rest to ask the teacher for advice, repeatedly ponders, understands with his heart, immerses himself in studying the artistic essence of the Cheng School, continuously improves his singing and performance ability, and constantly strives towards the artistic peak of the Cheng School. As the leader of a regiment, chi Xiaoqiu, as the leader of today's Cheng school of art, spares no effort to cultivate young talents and devotes himself to teaching, which fully reflects the reverence and respect of an artist in the new era for art, and the responsibility and responsibility for inheritance. Over the past few years, Sha Fei has learned from Chi Xiaoqiu teacher "Jade Hairpin", "Peacock Southeast Flying", "Suolin Capsule", "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang", "Yutang Chun" and other plays, so that he has a deeper understanding and cognition of the performance style and singing method of Cheng Pai art, and in the process of accumulating experience through continuous stage practice, his personal performance and singing level have also reached a new level.

For young actors, when inheriting the traditional repertoire, we must first follow the rules and the right way, that is, everyone often says to be upright, there is no original inheritance, let alone innovation and development? Sha Fei's "Peacock Southeast Flying" in this performance strictly follows the stage performance version of Teacher Chi Xiaoqiu, conscientiously studying the teacher's artistic style, but does not blindly study, has his own understanding of the character, can play his personal strengths, handles it more appropriately, grasps the inner emotions of the characters properly, has a clear level, is step by step, accurately grasps the character image and subtle psychological changes, uses the unique program performance of Peking Opera art, and the unique charm of Cheng Pai's singing characteristics to interpret the three-dimensional and distinct character image. On the night of the performance, Sha Fei's dignified and beautiful appearance, calm and atmospheric performance, gentle and smooth singing voice, no deliberate imitation, and no blunt singing left a deep impression on the audience and won the applause of the audience. The audience was delighted to feel that Sha Fei had made great progress under Chi Xiaoqiu's careful teaching, and through the continuous learning accumulation and stage practice experience in recent years, Sha Fei had gone to a new level in singing interpretation and performance.

"Peacock Flying Southeast" Stills Photography Wang Dandan

The plot of "Peacock Flying Southeast" is not complicated, and the storyline is well known. There are also different wonderful interpretations of various genres and famous artists. This play created and compiled by Master Cheng Yanqiu of Peking Opera is unique with its distinct artistic characteristics, and perfectly shows the artistic style of Cheng Pai. At the same time, it is also a play of extremely hard work, which is a great test of the actor's singing skills, and it is a great test for young actors. Sha Fei used his wonderful singing and deep performance to hand over a satisfactory answer sheet, won the praise of the audience, and a new star of Chengpai first shone. "Peacock Southeast Flying" is rich in plate style, heavy singing, and many classic singing segments are widely circulated. Sha Fei's handling of these classic passages such as "Fu Guining is partial to the old mother getting sick", "that Jiao Lang he was originally a small history of Lu Jiang", "Jiao Lang's words are suspended", strictly followed the vocal and singing skills of Cheng Pai, did not blindly sing, but gave full play to his own vocal advantages, the breath was properly controlled, the high places were like flowing clouds, the low places were like streams babbling, quite enduring, and better highlighted the solemn and deep characteristics of Cheng Pai's vocal cavity, so that the audience could hear the tone of the cavity, retract freely, and full of charm. The high-pitched singing of the sentence "Listening to the three is exactly the opening of the door and sneaking away" is mellow, and the strength control is excellent, which perfectly reflects the characteristics of the chengpai's vocal cavity, wins the applause of the audience, and fully proves the audience's recognition and praise for its singing voice. What is even more rare is that when Sha Fei sings, he does not blindly sing, but pays attention to the portrayal of the character's emotions, brings voice with emotion, conveys affection with cavity, and leaves room for shaping characters with sound. This is especially rare for young actors.

At present, some young actors are eager to show their strength due to the few opportunities to go on stage, resulting in all of them singing vigorously on stage, turning singing into showmanship, and paying little attention to the identity, situation and emotional expression of the characters they perform. Under the guidance of the teachers, Sha Fei has a relatively correct artistic concept and performance method on how to accurately grasp the characters and rationally use the skills of the genre to portray the characters, so that he has the style of his teacher in singing and performance. In terms of acting, Sha Fei has a remarkable performance according to the different situations in which the characters are located. Many actors said that they were afraid of singing the play "Peacock Flying Southeast", and they could not get off as soon as they got on stage. It is also true that in the nearly 150-minute performance, Liu Lanzhi, played by Sha Fei, is basically on the stage, not only rich in plate style, heavy singing, but also extremely testing skills. In several folding scenes such as "Homecoming", "Night Weaving", "Rest Back" and "Throwing Pool", Sha Fei has a good performance. When I returned home, I saw my mother-in-law's frightened and shaking body, the complicated body that put on the lamp when weaving at night, the delicate action of weaving, and the ass sitting in the pool all won the applause of the audience. These figures and performances fully reflect Liu Lanzhi's gentleness and virtuousness, as well as the etiquette of facing such a cruel and evil mother-in-law. As a young actor, Sha Fei has opened the door to the art of the Cheng School, hoping that she will continue to grind and inspire in the future artistic road, carefully ask for advice, absorb the strengths of all, and become the leader of the new generation of Cheng School art. For the inheritance and development of China's excellent traditional culture, they have made efforts and contributions belonging to their generation.

As a state-level key theater and troupe, the Beijing Opera House has made useful attempts and unremitting efforts in cultivating opera talents and the construction of talent echelons, and has implemented the spirit of the important instruction of the general secretary's speech that "the key to the prosperity and development of the opera industry lies in people" in practice. From the series of performances to cultivate young talents continuously launched in the hospital, not only have young people been trained, good seedlings have emerged from them, but also made audiences who like to love opera art familiar with the actors, which has played a positive role in promoting the inheritance and publicity of opera art.

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Li Honggen, Director of the Social Education Program Center of China Education Television