Looking for China Opera Words

Hidden in a haze, the flowers are fragrant and the flowers are fragrant. Author: Xuan Ning's acting skills are extreme, nothing unusual, just right; Personality is the best, there is no difference, just nature. It is my lifelong pursuit to be an innocent person and play a good show seriously.

Liu Xiaoyan

Liu Xiaoyan, a young performing artist.

Before talking about Liu Xiaoyan, I'd like to talk about the Henan Opera Grandson Queen and Pearl Curtain Play. I believe many people who like Henan Opera know these two dramas.

The Grandson Queen, a Henan drama, is a new historical drama that shows the prosperous Tang Dynasty, eulogizes the life-and-death choices of mother and child, family and law, and shows the contradiction of punishing evil and promoting good. The Grandson Queen adopts new materials, new ideas and new characters, and shows the historical elegance of the Tang Dynasty with its luxurious scenes, gorgeous costumes, beautiful singing and ups and downs of the story, supplemented by modern sound, light, smoke and fog. In the end, the play won the gold medal in the Ninth Drama Competition of Henan Province, and 18 individual awards, including the first prize of screenwriter, director, music design, director design and performance. The Pearl Curtain Show won the gold medal in the 10th Drama Competition of Henan Province. Zhulian Opera is based on the famous drama Dou Eyuan, which was created and performed by Zhu, the most famous zaju actor in Yuan Dynasty, and Guan Hanqing, a great playwright in Yuan Dynasty. It focuses on shaping the artistic image of the famous actress Zhu, and deduces the deep feelings of Zhu and Guan Hanqing, as well as the legendary story of not being afraid of power and daring to fight evil forces. The artistic feature of The Pearl Curtain Show is that it adopts the dramatic techniques in the play, changes freely in time and space, and has a tragic aesthetic feeling. In addition, the crisp and bright vocals and lively performances of the actors infected the audience, and the fast stage rhythm, concise stage scheduling and regular stage performances created pleasing visual effects and strong appreciation.

Two golden plays, different scenes, but starring the same actor-Liu Xiaoyan.

Like many actors, Liu Xiaoyan liked opera since he was a child. 1978, with the encouragement of his mother and behind his father's back, Liu Xiaoyan was admitted to Yongcheng Drama School and joined Yongcheng Henan Opera Troupe after graduation. However, she didn't stop, but continued to study. 16 years old, she was admitted to Pingdingshan Drama School through hard work and later assigned to Pingdingshan Henan Opera Troupe, and has been working ever since.

One: Love the stage and sacrifice for the play.

Speaking of the process of learning drama, Liu Xiaoyan smiled faintly: "To tell the truth, I think learning drama has to be' smart', and using the right method is actually not so bitter."

Indeed, Liu Xiaoyan is very talented in China's traditional drama. From being admitted to drama school to entering the troupe, it was smooth sailing, and it was enough to learn new vocals several times. Perhaps, Liu Xiaoyan's understanding made her suffer less than others when she was studying opera, but she didn't "work less" as she said. On the contrary, she also gave up a lot for opera.

Mr and Mrs Liu Xiaoyan are both actors. For the sake of opera, Liu Xiaoyan and her husband discussed not having children, fearing that her figure would be affected after giving birth. But slowly, all the friends around me became parents, and all the children grew up and the children grew up. Every time at this time, my husband will show an envious expression. She knows in her heart that her husband, who is in his thirties, has long wanted a child.

In the following years, the opera went downhill, and even once entered a trough. The market is very depressed, and many actors choose to change careers. Watching old friends leave one by one, Liu Xiaoyan was also affected, a little disheartened. So, she gave up her previous insistence and became a mother on 1994. The troupe revived as soon as the child was born. As a pillar of the troupe, many plays need Liu Xiaoyan to play the leading role. Xiaoyan, a new mother, certainly can't bear to leave her children to perform. Don't go, we really need her in the group. In the case that the economic conditions are not very good, the group leaders also specially invited a nanny for her. On the one hand, it is a mother's favorite child, on the other hand, it is an actor's favorite stage. Under the measurement, Xiaoyan decided to take the baby who was just born for a few months and take the nanny to perform with the group.

Those days are unforgettable for her. On the one hand, there are hungry children, and on the other hand, there are rushing gongs and drums. Often just after feeding the children, they rush to perform on stage. When they got off the stage and didn't have time to change their costumes, the nanny held the crying child over.

Those days were hard for her, too The troupe gives nearly 200 performances every year. Because I was the leading role, I won nine of the ten Liu Xiaoyan performances, and the rest time was pitiful. Looking at his wife who performed everywhere with her children, Xiaoyan's husband thought about it and decided to give up his dream. Although he was so obsessed with gorgeous stage and costumes, he chose to give up in order to take better care of his family and support his wife.

Two: numerous awards, courage to challenge.

Isn't it said that opportunities always favor people who are prepared? Of course, there is a reward for giving. From 65438 to 0999, Teacher Geng Yuqing recommended Liu Xiaoyan to participate in the costume drama film "The Same Root and Different Fruits" shot by China Film Company. At that time, the actors who competed for the No.1 female grandson were the main actors of various troupes, and the intensity of the competition could be imagined. In the face of all kinds of masters, Liu Xiaoyan is not confident. But as soon as she auditioned, the director took a fancy to her at first sight, which made her the most hopeless to realize her wish.

After performing so many plays, the ministries won numerous awards and received rave reviews. But for Liu Xiaoyan, her favorite is the Pearl Curtain Show. Because "The Pearl Curtain Show" is the most difficult and challenging. The play adopts the technique of "play in play, Taiwan in Taiwan", and the time and space need to be constantly changed. As the protagonist, Liu Xiaoyan actually wants to create two characters, one is Dou E's grievance, and the other is Zhu Lian Xiu. In different time and space backgrounds, to show different characters, it is necessary to jump and jump between two characters quickly. This requires not only solid singing, but also excellent acting skills.

Third, the unique singing moves people's hearts.

People who know opera all evaluate Xiaoyan's singing in this way, starting from the character's personality, singing with emotion, painting with sound and expressing emotion with sound. Indeed, singing needs to start from the plot and the emotions of the characters in the play in order to have a true feeling and touch people's hearts. Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "People who touch people's hearts should not care about their feelings first." . The charm of art lies in her affection for people. After watching the Henan Opera "Grandson Queen", people were deeply impressed by Liu Xiaoyan's graceful appearance and emotional singing, especially in that scene, in the face of his pleading son, Liu Xiaoyan showed the contradictory and complicated mood of the Grandson Queen to the fullest. Facing her son kneeling on the ground, the queen's eldest grandson "cried her mother's heart, hugged her son, snuggled up to her and cried." All the crimes committed by children are the sins of mothers. Look at the millions of families and beautiful women in Qian Qian, only our royal mother and son shed tears. "The sound of sorrow makes people see a mother who loves her son; Thinking about the crimes committed by her son, the queen's eldest grandson also has a kind of determination and majesty: "Mother has the right to mother, and the words of Wei Niang are like thunder. Turn a blind eye to evil, you can run away, turn a blind eye to hell, you can raise your eyebrows on earth, but your son, my son, can't be ignorant of his conscience. The laws of the Tang Dynasty are just like breaking the law by beating the prince. You should respect the laws and regulations for your mother. " At this time, we saw another virtuous person. Love, regret, majesty ... Liu Xiaoyan on the stage is completely integrated into the play. With the development of the plot, she expressed the emotional changes and complicated moods of the characters so accurately and truly. Four: Learn from Xun School and learn from others.

Xun School of Peking Opera also attaches great importance to the realism of performance and emphasizes that actors should have the ability to experience roles. In this regard, Mr. Xun once had an incisive exposition: "The actors on the stage, whether singing, reading, doing or playing, must proceed from the needs of the characters and must serve to express the thoughts and personalities of the people in the play." Therefore, in 2003, I always admired the Xunpai Peking Opera as a teacher. Sun Yumin's artistic style combines Tsing Yi, Hua Dan, Guimendan and Beijing Opera blues. According to the needs of plot development and task personality, he absorbed professional performance skills such as Wu, Wu, and even incorporated foreign dance footwork into the performing arts, which can be said to be learning from others. After learning from a teacher, Liu Xiaoyan once said, "Peking Opera represents the highest achievement of China's traditional opera, with rich artistic accumulation. Learning Peking Opera will help improve your artistic attainments. "

The so-called "acting to the extreme, nothing strange, just right; The character is the best, there is no difference, it is nature. " Think about "just right" and "nature". Isn't that the pursuit of the highest realm? The place where the swallows fly is a good time full of vitality. I believe that with good understanding and hard work, this swallow will fly higher and higher, "just" acting and "naturally" being a human being.