Meng Guanglu, Deng Muwei, Yang Chi and Kang Wansheng are all the leading actors of today's Peking Opera JingxingHua face. In 1993, all four of them participated in the Mei Lanfang Gold Award Competition at the same time, and as a result, Meng Guanglu, Deng Muwei and Yang Chi all won the gold medal, and Kang Wansheng took a nomination award.
In fact, in addition to this Mei Lanfang Award, Kang Wansheng rarely won the award. Now he is a national first-class actor, but also rely on the outstanding starring award won in the first Tianjin Drama Festival, if not even the national first-class actor can not be evaluated.
The other three, in addition to the Mei Lanfang Gold Award, have frequently won awards, such as the plum blossom award, the highest award in the opera industry. Meng Guanglu has also won it twice, and was even named the star of Chinese Peking Opera.
Kang Wansheng, on the other hand, seems to have been born out of the award. Whether it is a TV contest, or a Wenhua Award, or a Plum Blossom Award, there is nothing wrong with him. So Kang Wansheng rarely won awards because of his poor strength? This is not the case.
When Kang Wansheng was 6 years old, he moved to Tianjin with his family and became fascinated by Peking Opera, but his family was poor and could not learn from his teachers. His elder brother Kang Wansong was also a fan of drama, and in order to let his younger brother Kang Wansheng complete his regrets, he worked to provide Kang Wansheng with opera.
Kang Wansheng was admitted to the Children's Art Theater when he was 11 years old, and wanted to enter the Tianjin Opera School when he was 12 years old, but because of his age and small size, he was not admitted. After he went back, he worked hard to learn drama, except when he ate and slept, all he had in mind was drama.
After a year of hard work, Kang Wansheng was finally admitted to the Tianjin Opera School as he wished when he was 13 years old. In school, he was even more so, and participated in debriefing performances more than a month after enrolling. His artistic talent and hard work have been praised by school leaders and teachers.
Kang Wansheng has a naturally good voice, which gives him a unique advantage when learning the art of flower faces, and the mode he sings is the highest key of the flower face, the main palace tone. His singing style has both the charm of Qiu Shengrong and the atmosphere of Jin Shaoshan.
After that, he had the honor of worshipping under the door of Fang Rongxiang, a disciple of Qiu Shengrong, and took his Qiu Sect art to a higher level. At the same time, he also learned from Xia Yunlong, Wang Zhengping, Li Shaochun and other famous artists, and learned from the strengths of all, making his singing voice technology more and more mature.
Although Kang Wansheng sang that there was nothing to say, his appearance was not very good. Singing and playing is the basic skill of Peking Opera actors, and Kang Wansheng's singing is good, but it is quite lacking in doing and playing. And whether it is the Mei Lanfang Award or the Plum Blossom Award, it is to evaluate the comprehensive strength, which may be the real reason why Kang Wansheng did not get the gold award!