Original title: Cheng Men Rookie First Bloom Fanghua - Watching young actor Sha Fei starring in Cheng Pai's famous drama "Peacock Flying Southeast" has a feeling
Cheng Pai's famous drama "Peacock Flying Southeast" starring young actor Sha Fei
A few days ago, the famous Cheng Pai drama "Peacock Flying Southeast" starring Sha Fei, an outstanding young actor of the Beijing Peking Opera House, was staged fiercely. 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. The play, which has rarely appeared on the stage in recent years, was personally taught by Chi Xiaoqiu, a Peking Opera performance artist and a descendant of the Cheng School, and has aroused the enthusiasm of many fans and audiences. As a powerful Chengpai rookie, Sha Fei lived up to expectations, first bloomed Fanghua, and perfectly interpreted the classic repertoire of this Chengpai, which was widely praised by everyone.
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 well-known opera educator Li Wenmin. Under the careful professorship of Li Wenmin, he successively learned to act in classic plays of the Cheng school such as "Suolin Capsule", "Dou E'er", "Spring Dream", "Red-maned Spirit 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, the Beijing Opera House deployed Sha Fei to the Youth League in order to cultivate outstanding young talents, and since then she 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, As a student Sha Fei is always on the sidelines to observe carefully, often use the performance gap and rest to ask the teacher for advice, repeatedly ponder, understand with heart, immerse himself in studying the artistic essence of the Cheng School, continuously improve his singing and performance ability, and constantly strive 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 Teacher Chi Xiaoqiu "Jade Hairpin", "Peacock Southeast Flying", "Suolin Capsule", "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang", "Yutang Spring" and other plays, so that he has a deeper understanding and cognition of the performance style and singing method of Cheng Pai art, and has continuously accumulated experience through stage practice, and 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 Chi Xiaoqiu's stage performance version, conscientiously studied the teacher's artistic style, but did not blindly study, has his own understanding of the characters, can play his personal strengths, handle it more properly, grasp the inner emotions of the characters properly, have a clear hierarchy and step by step, accurately grasp the character image and subtle psychological changes, use the unique program performance of Peking Opera art, as well as the unique charm of Cheng Pai's singing characteristics, and interpret the three-dimensional and distinct character image. On the night of the performance, Sha Fei used her dignified and beautiful appearance, calm and atmospheric performance, gentle and smooth singing voice, did not deliberately imitate, did not sing bluntly, 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 and accumulation of several years and stage practice experience, Sha Fei had risen to a new level in singing interpretation and performance.
The plot of "Peacock Flying Southeast" is not complicated, and the storyline is well known. Each genre, genre, and famous artist also has different wonderful interpretations. This play created and compiled by Peking Opera master Cheng Yanqiu is unique with its distinct artistic characteristics, which perfectly shows the artistic style of the Cheng School. At the same time, the play is also a very hard-working play, 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, which won the praise of the audience, and a new star of Cheng Pai first shone. "Peacock Southeast Flying" is rich in plate style, singing is heavy, 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 Lujiang official", "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 clouds flowing water, the low places were like streams babbling, quite enduring, which better highlighted the dignified and deep characteristics of Cheng Pai's vocal cavity, so that the audience could hear the tone of the cavity gracefully, retract freely, and full of charm. The high-pitched sentence "Listening to the three is exactly the opening of the door and sneaking away" is sung with mellow rhyme and excellent control, which perfectly reflects the characteristics of Cheng Pai'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 pays attention to the portrayal of the character's emotions, brings the voice with emotion, conveys the love with the cavity, and leaves room for shaping the character with the voice. This is especially rare for young actors. At present, some young actors are eager to show their strength due to the lack of opportunities on stage, resulting in all of them singing with riveting vigor when they go 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 teacher, Sha Fei has a relatively correct artistic concept and performance method on how to accurately grasp the characters and rationally use the techniques 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 chengpai, hoping that she will continue to grind, carefully teach, and absorb the strengths of others on the road of art in the future, become the leader of the new generation of chengpai art, and make efforts and contributions belonging to their generation for the inheritance and development of China's excellent traditional culture.
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 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. (Li Honggen, Director of Social Education Program Center, China Education Television)
Source: China Culture Daily