"I'm afraid that my father will be angry, my mother will be distressed, and the two families will be uneasy", Zhang Yage stood on the stage, from his eye movements to the tone of "pimple sound", Li Xiuying's shyness and reserve mixed with the complex mood of fear of being misunderstood and self-deprecation were vividly displayed.
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On July 10th, after nearly 40 years, the Second Henan Henan Opera Troupe reappeared on the stage the classic repertoire of the Yan School of Henan Opera, which was carefully polished and scrutinized. According to the two tapes that have been dusty for many years, the main creators of "Jade Hairpin" and the opera master visited a number of disciples of Master Yan Lipin of the Yan School of Henan Opera to reproduce the charm of Master Yan Lipin.
"Jade Hairpin" is one of the representative works of the Yan School, and there are many types of dramas, but the famous drama of the Yan School of Henan Opera has won the love of the audience with its soft and sweet singing.
In the play, Li Xiuying plays the outstanding young actor Zhang Yage, as a disciple of the Yan faction, Zhang Yage, who has been obsessed with Henan Opera since he was a child, and after entering the Second Henan Henan Opera Troupe, he studied under Zhang Meizhen, a descendant of the famous Henan Opera performance artist Yan School, and participated in the creation and performance of this play. She not only inherited the artistic essence of the Yan School, but also continued to innovate and develop in practice. The re-enactment of "Jade Hairpin" is an important part of her career, and it is also a comprehensive display of the art of the Yan School of Henan Opera.
Zhang Yage plays Li Xiuying in "Jade Hairpin" Photo provided by the interviewee
A song "Chaoyanggou" stepped into the door of Henan Opera
Yan School is a school of art founded by Yan Lipin, a master of Henan Opera. Whether it is the repertoire, or the artistic style and achievements of singing, Yan Lipin is in a class of its own.
Zhang Yage's first contact with Yan opera was in her childhood, and by chance, she heard Yan Lipin's "Qin Xuemei" singing in the taxi, and her mellow and watery tone suddenly captured her heart, begging her mother to buy her a CD of Yan Lipin's complete book, and since then, she can't help but want to hum two sentences every day.
And the real step into the theater industry was because of a performance at the age of 12. On Children's Day in 2003, the school's teacher asked 12-year-old Zhang Yage to sing "Chaoyanggou", which was praised by everyone as "aura", which made her parents who already love to listen to opera even more interested, so they sent her to study opera school. In school, Zhang Yage was not the earliest to learn drama, but he was the hardest working. "Every morning when I wake up, I have to practice and hang my throat, and I have to work harder than others to avoid falling behind."
The fate of Zhang Yage and his master Zhang Meizhen started in 2016. Teacher Yan has his own standards for accepting apprentices, "The teacher will observe your usual words and deeds, and conduct comes first. Secondly, based on some of the roles you usually play, the teacher will consider whether you are really suitable for the Yan faction. ”
Zhang Yage and Master Zhang Meizhen took a group photo Courtesy of the interviewee
"I think the difference between the Yan school and other genres is that the Yan school is too delicate, the singing style is very euphemistic, it is a clear stream in the opera, and as soon as the voice of the Yan school comes out, the whole world is quiet." The first scene Zhang Yage learned from the teacher was the classic paragraph of the Yan School "Sanshangguan", the teacher taught her word by word, to start from the characters, "with love with the sound, the words are round", especially when it comes to the final allegro, it should be like the feeling of "big beads and small beads falling on the jade plate", word by word, so that the audience can hear clearly what is sung, this singing voice also recorded a "national intangible cultural heritage rescue documentary".
"One minute on stage, ten years off stage", the basic skills of opera are accumulated and precipitated by actors in training day after day, year after year. In addition, the so-called "internalization in the heart and externalization in action" requires the actors to integrate their feelings and make the audience "enter the play". In the process of studying, Zhang Yage was moved by the master's talent, and the master repeatedly told Zhang Yage that learning the Yan school should have a deep cultural background. "What impressed me the most was that every time I went to Master's house to study, the first thing I said when I entered the door was, 'Have you memorized the ancient poems I taught you?' If you don't recite a poem, you won't be allowed to enter the door'. ”
Take the stage and perform on the same stage with famous artists
When Zhang Yage was in school, she admired the masters of Henan opera Li Shujian and Li Jinzhi, and she felt that it was rare to see famous opera artists, and it was even more extravagant to take photos with teachers on stage.
"At that time, I really didn't expect to be able to perform with them one day." Zhang Yage said with a sigh. After joining the troupe, Zhang Yage's first play was to perform "Taipei Prefect" on the same stage with Teacher Li Jinzhi, "That time we were going to Taiwan to perform, and in the play I played a sweeping maid who had dialogue with Teacher Li Jinzhi. ”
In the three years since joining the troupe, Zhang Yage has never played the leading role, but she has always maintained her love for Henan Opera. When others were performing on stage, she pondered carefully offstage. With this enthusiasm, she finally ushered in her first opportunity to play the heroine in the play.
"We once performed "Qingfeng Pavilion" in Shanxi, and it happened that one of the teachers in the troupe had a very uncomfortable voice, and Dean Li Shujian said to me who was watching the play carefully, 'You will play the second lady in the next show'. I don't know where I got the courage, I didn't have stage fright, I just felt that it was the first time I took on such a big role, and I had to play it well. ”
"Every time I go on stage, I have to cherish it, the stage is awe-inspiring, not child's play, at first even if it was a trick, I didn't dare to blink, so that now I am engrossed in every performance. Zhang Yage said.
Today's Zhang Yage has transformed from a girl who couldn't even dress up in opera to a big Tsing Yi who can stand alone, and has gone to Europe, America, Korea, Taiwan and other regions for exchange performances many times. She won the Wenhua Grand Prize and the first prize of Wenhua Performance in the 15th Henan Provincial Drama Competition. The first prize of cultural performance in the 10th Henan Young Drama Actors Competition (Tsing Yi Group). First Prize of the 8th Yellow River Drama Festival in Henan Province; The 13th Anhui Provincial Drama Competition "Five One Project" Outstanding Work Award and Performance First Prize; The 5th Provincial Cultural System Opera and Dance Competition Performance Awards.
"Jasper Hairpin" hidden in an old cassette tape
"Jade Hairpin" tells the story of Li Tingfu, the official of the Ming Dynasty, who married his daughter Li Xiuying to Yulin, the son of Hanlin Wang Yu. Xiuying's cousin Gu Wenyou failed to propose, so he bribed Sun Matchmaker to borrow a hosta from Xiuying, together with a forged love letter, on the day of Xiuying's marriage, secretly placed in the new house. When Tingfu heard that the woman was abused, he rushed to the palace to question, and Yulin Fang showed love letters, jade, etc., so that the truth was revealed. Ran Xiuying has been tortured into a disease. Yulin was full of remorse, went to Beijing to take the exam, and invited Fengguan Xia to admit his mistake to Xiuying.
The play is a treasure on the opera stage, and the unique singing art created by Master Yan Lipin has fascinated countless audiences, but this play has not been performed for many years, leaving only two incomplete recordings.
Before the death of Master Zhang Meizhen, Zhang Yage and Master had the intention of arranging "Jade Hairpin", in which the wonderful part of the play was taught to Zhang Yage word by word.
By chance, Zhang Yage asked someone to find Master Yan Lipin's family and personally got the script of Master Yan's performance that year. Anyone who has an impression of the play, Zhang Yage will visit and search for relevant information in various places.
The second from the left is a photo provided by the interviewee
On the morning of April 26, a seminar on the script of Henan Opera "Jade Hairpin" was held in Zhengzhou, and many experts asked for the pulse and offered suggestions for the script of "Jade Hairpin".
"The soul of "Jade Hairpin" is the three covers, and due to the lack of some information in the end, the singing part needs to be rewritten. With the help of Mr. Wang Zhaofeng, the four of us worked together to finalize the singing tone and notes, word by word, aiming not to deviate from the characteristics of the Yan school's vocal cavity. In Zhang Yage's view, this is not inconsistent with Master Yan Lipin's original singing voice of the three covers.
"For example, the first paragraph of the singing voice fully borrowed some of the singing methods in Yan Lipin's "Wind and Snow Match", and the second paragraph, 'As the saying goes, husband and wife are originally birds in the same forest', borrowed the singing method in "Panfu Sofu"...... makes full use of the vocal cavity characteristics of the Yan School, which is also the reason why it is recognized by the audience. ”
After screenwriter (adaptation) Wang Mingshan introduced the creation of the script, the experts started from their respective professional fields to "check the pulse" and make suggestions on the script creation, and conducted in-depth analysis and excavation on the theme of the script, plot setting, contradictions and conflicts, folk culture and other contents, so as to further improve the quality of the script and lay a solid foundation for the Henan Opera "Jade Hairpin" to be put on the stage.
Re-choreographing and adjusting the treatment of stage performances, stage techniques, lighting, costumes, styling, etc. Adhering to the integrity and innovation of the Henan opera genre and pursuing the great beauty of classical opera is not only the original intention of the creation and rehearsal of this repertoire, but also the most basic requirement throughout the entire creation and rehearsal process.
"It can stand up even if it has changed times"
Group photo of the actors of "Jade Hairpin" Courtesy of the interviewee
"Jade Hairpin" was widely praised once it was performed, but in Zhang Yage's view, "Jade Hairpin" still has many deficiencies, and it also needs to be changed while performing in the future, listening to the opinions of experts and audiences, and then making secondary revisions, and then repeatedly polishing and improving, so that this play can go further.
When talking about the development of opera, Zhang Yage mentioned that there is art in each era and every era, and our life is fast-paced, so we must also be long if we have something to say and short if we have nothing to say, so that opera can also keep up with the pace of development of our times. She always believes that traditional culture has roots, this root can bring us cultural self-confidence, and this root can stand up through the changes of the times.
(Zhengguan News reporter Cheng Zixin, intern Feng Yifei/text, Chen Chen, Liu Yang/video)
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