On April 13, 2022, at 7:00 a.m. (Beijing time), the famous Kunqu performance artist Hua Wenyi died in Los Angeles at the age of 81.
Hua Wenyi, born in 1941, is a famous actor in Kunqu opera, Hua Wenyi is the first graduate of Shanghai Opera School. She was taught by Zhu Chuanming and other "Chuan" character artists and famous teachers such as Yu Zhenfei and Yan Huizhu, focusing on Boudoir Dan, with exquisite skills and outstanding talents. In the 1960s, Hua Wenyi performed the Kunqu opera "The Legend of the White Snake", which was very successful and was known as "Little Mei Lanfang".
Hua Wenyi's "Dream of Visiting the Garden" is also very exciting.
Hua Wenyi looks beautiful, has a gorgeous voice, pursues a natural style, and integrates the program into his performance without leaving a trace. In "Wall Head Horse", together with her former "golden partner" Yue Meiti, she reproduced the classic images of art masters Yu Zhenfei and Yan Huizhu.
In 1988, Bai Xianyong returned to the mainland for the first time to give a lecture, and once again saw the whole book "The Hall of Eternal Life" starring Shanghai Kunqu Troupe artists Hua Wenyi and Cai Zhengren in Shanghai, and his fascination with the beauty of Kunqu opera has never been received since then. He sighed countless times: "Kunqu opera has no other, it has a 'beautiful' word, the beauty of rhetoric, the beauty of dance, the beauty of music, and the beauty of human feelings, which is the concentrated embodiment of China's aesthetic ideals, the product of the highly developed classical culture of China, and a world-class art, and all of us must cherish it." ”