On August 28, "Wutong Mingjiahui" walked into the Shanghai Peking Opera Transmission Hall located at No. 168 Yueyang Road, Xuhui District. In the 1980s, the Shanghai Peking Opera House entered the area and led the development of Haipai Peking Opera for more than 40 years.
Fu Xiru, a veteran of Peking Opera, brought a group of young actors from the Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre to bring classic Peking Opera singing segments, and also invited the audience to experience costumes and costumes on stage to appreciate the beauty of the national essence.
Behind the double-mindedness of both culture and martial arts
"One box of matches, half an episode of animation, two injuries, three notices." Fu Xiru summed up his artistic experience in 17 words.
His father was a professional violinist in the Shandong Peking Opera Troupe, and during a meal he used two chopsticks to imitate his father playing the violin, and his father mistakenly thought that he liked Jinghu art and began to cultivate.
The process of learning is undoubtedly difficult and boring for a child. "When I was a child practicing, the amount of piano played was the number of roots of a box of matches, and I took one and pulled it again until all 40 of them were taken out, and then I had to put them back one by one." Every day after school, the piano playing time starts at six o'clock and ends at half past six, Fu Xiru can only watch half of the cartoon, and the other half relies on imagination.
The "three notices" refers to the fact that he received the admission letters from the three opera schools in Beijing, Shanghai and Shandong. The admission majors in Beijing and Shandong are both Jinghu, and Shanghai is performing. Because I love to eat Shanghai's sweet and sticky hemp balls, and I also like tough guys such as Jackie Chan and Jet Li, "I thought I could play such a role as an actor, so I chose to come to Shanghai as an actor." ”
In that year, Fu Xiru entered the Shanghai Opera School with the first overall score, and was assigned to the first group of old students, and Wang Peiyu was a classmate. Unexpectedly, one year after enrolling, he began to "invert the warehouse", that is, the opera actors experienced a period of voice change, and Fu Xiru "fell" for 15 years.
After the reversal began, he switched to studying martial arts, but due to the excessive practice, which led to ligament relaxation, the 16-year-old suffered from a herniated disc. "The doctor said I couldn't do strenuous exercise anymore, which meant I had to change careers again, and my other door was closed." Later, Fu Xiru began to read books and study pathology on his own, and used muscle growth to change the position of nerve compression, alleviate symptoms, and live peacefully with the disease.
Fu Xiru sang "Wise Tiger Mountain".
In 2019, the 38-year-old Fu Xiru won the "Plum Blossom Award" for Chinese opera. In February this year, he appeared on CCTV Spring Festival Gala and performed the clip of "Wise Tiger Mountain", allowing the audience to remember the sixth generation of "Yang Zirong".
He knew how hard it was to get famous, but now Fu Xiru's son Wenxuan had also embarked on this arduous road. At the age of 12, he was admitted to the Peking Opera Music Department of the Drama School and studied Jinghu. The three generations of the Fu family are all working hard to promote traditional culture.
How to play Mei Lanfang well
Fu Xiru introduced that the Peking Opera Line originally hung its head card with shengxing, and a large number of outstanding actors such as Cheng Changgeng, Yu Sansheng, and Zhang Erkui of Peking Opera Were all shengxing. After the birth of the four famous Dans, artists led by Mei Lanfang pushed Dan to a more important front.
"At first, the theater had no electric lights, and it was more about listening than watching. Later, electric lights became popular, and the audience looked at the appearance of those Dan in the past, which was ugly. Later, Mr. Mei began to make a thorough reform from the headdress, appearance, to the details of the costume, and later Mr. Mei's role was truly graceful and luxurious. ”
Wang Weijia, a young Peking opera actor, performs an excerpt from "Noble Concubine Drunk".
Wang Weijia, a young Peking opera actor, performed an excerpt from Mei Pai's representative play "Noble Concubine Drunk" at the scene. Fu Xiru said that the charms of Mei, Shang, Cheng and Xun are very different, and they are the artistic qualities that artists create according to their own conditions. "For example, Mei Pai, Zhongzheng is elegant, there is no high-pitched singing voice, complicated skills, but it must be very round and comfortable." And Shang Xiaoyun Wudan was born, the martial arts are good and strong, and his hero has the feeling of a female man. Cheng Yanqiu's voice did not turn upside down, but according to his own conditions, he created a low, gentle and tragic Cheng School, such as his song "Suolin Capsule", which was quite infectious. ”
How can the audience taste the beauty of the noble concubine's drunkenness through the details? Fu Xiru pointed out that there are many doorways from appearance to performance. "Like not like a three-pointer, the actor's appearance is very important. Next is the performance, one to listen to the singing voice, Mei Pai actors need to have a moist and good voice. Second, we must watch the performance, the demeanor and action, the sound must sing, the action must be martial, and it must be exaggerated so that the audience can clearly understand. ”
Fu Xiru's original Peking opera "Mei Lanfang Beard" has toured more than 30 times across the country. Playing Mei Lanfang is a huge challenge for Fu Xiru. "Mei Lanfang is Mei Lanfang, he is a special historical figure, even if you don't look like and temperament, but the temperament and feeling that comes out make people believe, this is Mei Lanfang, this is the most difficult."
Fu Xiru believes that the promotion of Peking Opera should take the initiative. On September 1, Fu Xiru will give the first lesson of the first class of the school at Hainan Middle School in Hongkou District, giving a lecture on the popularization of Peking Opera. "If you don't enter the pear garden, how do you know how wonderful it is?" I believe that a lecture and a famous talent can make many people like Peking Opera and enter the theater. ”
Fu Xiru expressed her confidence in Peking Opera with the help of a sentence by singer Liu Huan: Peking Opera has become a classic drama in another era, it will not become popular because more people like it, nor will it fall because of lack of attention, it has become eternal.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Shi Chenlu Text Editor: Zhang Yi Caption Source: "Wutong Mingjiahui" Provided Photo Editor: Su Wei
Source: Author: Wu Tong Guo Sheng