The reporter learned from the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe
National intangible cultural heritage
Representative inheritor of the project,
Experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council,
National first-class actor Liu Yilong
Ineffective medical treatment due to illness
On December 13, 2023 at 14:00
Passed away in Shanghai Ruijin Hospital
He was 83 years old
Yesterday (December 13th) afternoon
Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe released an obituary:
According to Liu Yilong's wishes
The funeral is simple
Liu Yilong is a generation of Kunqu opera celebrities
He is recognized as a "National Treasure" performing artist
Liu Yilong was born in Wuhan, and in 1953, when he was still a teenager, Liu Yilong went to Shanghai to play at his mother-in-law's house, and happened to meet the Shanghai Opera School to recruit the first Kunqu Opera class.
As a member of the "Kun Da Class", Liu Yilong has been Kun Chou Tai Dou Hua Chuanhao, Wang Chuanzhen, Zhou Chuancang and other true legends, under the cultivation of Yu Zhenfei, the principal of the Shanghai Opera School, became a famous ugly artist, and was praised as "Kuntan Qing Ugly" by Chen Congzhou, a master of garden art.
▲ Liu Yilong when he was young
Liu Yilong sings and reads well, has both civil and military skills, performs witty and funny, and can enter the play with frolic and angry scolding. He is good at creating vivid characters, and the harlequin gimmicks he performs are vulgar, hot but not noisy, and alive but not oily.
He dressed as a man and a woman, which was full of fun, enriching the Kunchou language reading, and creating Kunchou's Chuanbai, Yuebai, Wuhan Bai and other local language characteristics. He is either playing a little monk, or a big eunuch, or an old Taoist aunt, or an ugly woman, all of them are full of drama.
▲ Liu Yilong performed in the pear orchard on the sea
In the early 60s of the 20th century, Liu Yilong won the Outstanding Performance Award of the 1960 Shanghai Youth Association for the play "Down the Mountain", and won the Outstanding Performance Award and the Corolla Award at the 2nd Shanghai Theater Festival for "Captured Alive".
He played the role of Gao Lishi in "The Palace of Eternal Life", won the 1st Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performing Arts Supporting Actor Award, and won the Honorary Performance Award at the first China Kunqu Opera Arts Festival. In 1993, he participated in the Spring Festival Gala opera sketch "Ugly Fighting for Spring".
Liu Yilong has created many characters loved by the audience, such as Lou Arat, Zhu Bajie in "Monkey King Three Fights White Bone Spirit", Gao Lishi in "The Palace of Eternal Life", Hu Tu in "The Dry Well Case", Ximen Qing in "Pan Jinlian", etc.
The famous Kunqu opera "Fifteen Runs" was once known as "a play to save a drama", Ji Zhenhua played the role of Suzhou prefect Guo Zhong, disguised as a fortune teller, attracting the murderer Lou Arat, played by Liu Yilong, to come to measure the word and ask the good luck. In the play, Guo Zhong teased Lou Arat's heart like a cat catching a mouse, and every muscle on Liu Yilong's face seemed to "speak". In 1978, the two co-starred in "Fifteen Runs", which created an unprecedented grand occasion in Shanghai for 38 consecutive days and full houses.
▲ Liu Yilong played Lou Arat's role in "Fifteen Runs".
▲ Liu Yilong played Xian Yuji in "Dog Cave".
▲ Liu Yilong played Ben Wu in "Down the Mountain".
▲ Liu Yilong played Zhang Wenyuan in "Borrowing Tea".
▲ Liu Yilong played Lu Fengxuan in "Drunken Soap".
Liu Yilong has also cultivated a large number of outstanding harlequin actors, and many dramas across the country have his students.
▲ Liu Yilong and students
Gu Haohao, head of the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe and Kunqu Opera performance artist, revealed in an interview with reporters yesterday that she had just bid farewell to Mr. Liu in front of her hospital bed in the afternoon and was very sad. Gu Hao recalled that he had taken Mr. Liu's class when he was a student in the 90s of the last century, and he was a strict teacher, but he treated his students very warmly.
She told reporters that even in his later years, Mr. Liu will still go all out every time he takes the stage and be meticulous about art. In recent years, he has entered his 80s, and even if it is inconvenient to go on stage again, he is still concerned about inheritance, treating his home as a classroom, and continuing to lecture to younger students. His departure made the Kunqu opera people reluctant and the audience reluctant.
▲ Liu Yilong with his classmates and Yu Zhenfei Photo by Zu Zhongren
It is understood that Liu Yilong's family is engaged in the art of opera, his daughter Liu Jia is a famous actor of the Shanghai Peking Opera Company, and his son-in-law is Zhang Fan, the director of the Shanghai Peking Opera Company.
Zhang Fan said of Liu Yilong, "He is not only my father-in-law, but also my teacher. Although the genre of opera is different, Jingkun is not separated, and he often chats with me about the various performances of the Peking Opera Company. He is recognized as a master in the art of Kunqu opera, and he is also a national treasure-level artist, and many students of the Peking Opera Troupe across the country have studied opera with him. He is very low-key in life, but when it comes to acting, he is very serious. He has a special interest in the young children of the troupe and often mingles with them. ”
Netizen: Never forget!
Mr. Liu goes all the way!
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