Ren Hongen is a well-known Yu opera comedy performance artist, his singing voice is a series of his own, his voice is clear and transparent, dexterous and simple, his singing is bold and unrestrained, unique, his performance is humorous and vivid, delicate and subtle, strong plasticity, and the characters he plays are rich in emotion and distinctive characteristics. His successful performance has opened up a new idea of modern Yu opera's performance that is close to life, real nature, humor and humor, and has drawn a conclusion for the controversy between "opera" and "life" in modern opera performance: starting from life and characters, on the basis of being close to life and "having in mind", the traditionalization of opera is integrated into life.
"There is no art and no skill, not vivid, and there is no art is a showmanship." The perfect unity of skill and art can be called perfect art. The real mastery of "skill" and "art" requires not only the guidance of famous teachers, but more importantly, their own hard work. Ren Hongen's "skills" and "arts" rely on decades of hard training and solid artistic skills. As a "new ugly" actor of modern Yu opera, Ren Hongen not only understands the performance and singing style of ugly behavior, but is also quite familiar with the performance and singing voice of shengjiao, and his performance and singing have been unanimously affirmed by experts and ordinary opera fans.
Ren Hong'en grew up in Xuchang, which was once the capital of Cao Wei and the activity base of "Big Oil" and "Eryou". Ren Hongen loved to watch dramas since he was a child, and he didn't have money to buy tickets, so he tried to enter the theater to "rub" the plays. At the age of 14, because of the recommendation of his teacher, he entered the troupe.
Ren Hong'en's love for singing has reached the point of madness, and he can't sit still when he hears the gong and drum, and he wants to open his mouth when he hears the strings being pulled. After staying in the troupe for less than half a year, the troupe began to rehearse a new play "Xi Linmen", assigning Ren Hong'en a small role, but he did not expect that the audience would not buy it as soon as he came on, and the play was bombed down before it was finished. This incident has strengthened his determination to work hard and improve himself, and he must perform a role and get the applause of the audience. In the group, Ren Hong'en specialized in literature and martial arts, but he wanted to learn anything, any role wanted to act, not acting was like losing his soul, no matter what he played, he was happy to do it. Can't play the main role, play the "miscellaneous octagon"; can't sing big dramas, play small plays. Ren Hong'en pays attention to repeatedly studying the singing methods of various genres of Yu opera, and the singing voices of some famous actors are very familiar to him. In addition, he also pays attention to learning the strengths of the singing music of each brother's drama and enriching himself by borrowing.
Ren Hong'en is keen to act on stage and also concentrates on practicing offstage. Flipping, rolling, comparing, and singing have almost become the entire content of daily life, practicing three nine in winter and three volts in summer, never stopping. When he met the brother troupe and saw new things, he did not let go at all, and in the past few years of entering the troupe, he practiced vigorously, shouted his voice vigorously, and performed on stage with vigor. In addition to Yu opera, he has also sung Peking Opera, Opera Opera, and Yue Tune, and he always feels that learning a little more knowledge and technique will help him to act in the future. With this learning energy, the long-term hard work and hard work have not been wasted, and the continuous learning and accumulation have expanded his opera ideas and enriched his understanding of the opera industry. Therefore, in addition to Wenwu Xiaosheng - Xu Xian in "Broken Bridge", Ren Tanghui in "Three Forks", And Jiao Guangpu in "Blocking Horses", he also played the beard - Yao Da in "Bai Luo Shirt", Li Zicheng and Hua Face in "Three Dozen Thunder Temple" - Erlang Shen in "Baolian Lantern", etc. The performance experience of different roles in these different professions has accumulated experience for Ren Hongen's future performance role creation, enriched the drama road, and laid a solid foundation.
Yu opera is a kind of drama based on ShengDanjiao, and playing clowns does not have ready-made things like Peking Opera, Kun opera and Sichuan opera. Ren Hong'en consciously learned from the clowns of these dramas, and played several clowns of traditional plays in succession. In 1964, Ren Hong'en successfully created the image of the selfish and shrewd peasant Liu Zide in the Modern Yu Opera drama "People Cheering and Horses Calling", and together with this play, he caused a sensation in the Zhongnan Modern Opera Festival, and then shook Jinghua. Ren Hong'en's unique and natural performance has amazed many insiders. Subsequently, Ren Hong'en found his place in the performance of comedy characters in modern drama, which established his status as a comedy performance artist of Henan Yu opera.