How did this Shaoxing opera girl become a great master?

Release time:May 02, 2024 14:05 PM

The girls singing "Butterfly Lovers" were laughing and playing. On the other side of the stage, the elderly "Fan Ruijuan" stared quietly. AI restored Fan Ruijuan's original voice, ""Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" is the most sung play by our hometown troupe, and it is also the one that I I started learning opera when I was 11 years old, because I didn’t want to be a child bride, so I chose to sing.” On May 1, the “Feng·Fan” series of performances hosted by the Shanghai Yue Opera Theater commemorated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yue Opera master Fan Ruijuan. The show kicked off at the Wanping Theater, where we will pursue the master's style through theme performances and dramas "Green Shirt and Red Robe" and "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai".

Fan Ruijuan has created more than 100 characters in her more than 50 years of stage career. Her representative works include Liang Shanbo in "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", Jiao Zhongqing in "The Peacock Flies Southeast", Zheng Yuanhe in "The Legend of Li Wa", and Guo Ai in "The Golden Bough". , "Sister-in-law Xianglin" He Laoliu and others. She absorbed the singing tones and embellishments of famous Peking opera masters such as Ma Lianliang and Gao Qingkui, forming the characteristics of broad and loud tone, solid and steady pronunciation, and circuitous and smooth delivery. In January 1945, Fan Ruijuan and Yuan Xuefen performed "Butterfly Lovers" at the Jiuxing Theater. With the cooperation of luthier Zhou Baocai, they pioneered the downtuning of the strings. The string-lower tune pattern has been continuously enriched and has become one of the main tunes of Yue Opera.

Fan Ruijuan and Yuan Xuefen "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai"

Fan Ruijuan, Yuan Xuefen, Fu Quanxiang "The Legend of White Snake"

"Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" Fan Ruijuan as Liang Shanbo and Fu Quanxiang as Zhu Yingtai 1952

"Sister-in-law Xianglin" Yuan Xuefen as Sister-in-law Xianglin and Fan Ruijuan as He Laoliu 1946

In September 1944, Fan Ruijuan collaborated with Yuan Xuefen and others to launch the "New Yue Opera" reform. In 1946, she performed the Yue Opera "The Desolate Moon in the Liao Palace" at the Shanghai Star Theater. After watching the play, Zhou Enlai summoned the CCP’s underground organizations and hoped that they would go deep into the major Yue opera troupes and lead the Yue opera work. Since then, a group of CCP members have joined various opera troupes. On August 25, 1954, New China's first large-scale color film "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" premiered in Shanghai. In the same year, it participated in the 8th International Film Festival held in Czechoslovakia and won the Musical Film Award and the 9th International Film Festival. Edinburgh International Film Festival Screening Award. The Yue Opera "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" has become a shining business card in cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.

Fan Ruijuan, also known as Fan Zhushan, has loved bamboo all her life, admired the character of "Bamboo", and learned from "Bamboo" the spirit of taking root in the land. The 1-day theme performance uses the image of "bamboo" throughout, and combines modern technological means to tell the story of Fan Ruijuan's artistic life. Eight generations of Fan School disciples will perform classic plays and classic characters from different periods of the Fan School.

Fan Ruijuan and student Wu Fenghua signed autographs for readers. Photo by Jin Dinggen

Fan Ruijuan wipes sweat from student Chen Xueping. Photo by Jin Dinggen

"The Root of Bamboo" tells the story of Fan Ruijuan's simple and warm sisterly relationship with her seniors and elder sisters when she first stepped onto the Yue Opera stage, as well as her diligent study of opera and her attempts to develop roles such as niche, martial arts, and clown. "Bamboo Bones" tells the story of Fan Ruijuan and her Yue opera sisters' efforts to pursue progress together, improve the sound and beauty system of Yue opera directors and directors, and create new characters that keep pace with the times after the reform of "New Yue Opera" and the founding of New China. "Rhyme of Bamboo" starts with the sensation caused by "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" on the international stage, and introduces the most representative classic plays and characters of the Fan School of Art. "Heart of Bamboo" tells the story of Fan Ruijuan's emotions towards her teachers, the audience, and the stage. Two winners of the Fan School Plum Blossom Award will present excerpts from "The Sing of the Garden" and "The Romance of the West Chamber".

In addition to classic clips such as "Butterfly Lovers", "The Peacock Flies Southeast", "The Legend of Li Wa" and "Xiang Lin's Wife", the audience also enjoyed the rare Fan School's "Meet the Girl Before", "The Romance of the West Chamber", "The Desolate Moon in the Palace of Liao - The Suffering from Chaos" ” “He who is not allowed to be born” and so on. Chen Xueping, a disciple of Fan School and winner of the Plum Blossom Award, plays the role of mentors in different periods. Together with Fan Ruijuan's voice reshaped through modern technological means, she tells Fan Ruijuan's voice and retraces her life and art path.

"Sometimes I even talk in my sleep while reciting my lines. Everyone laughs at me and chants sutras from morning to night. Because I know that I am stupid. Others only need one or two points of effort, but I have to spend ten and eight points. "Only when you run a lot on stage and become as familiar as returning to your parents' home can you play every role well, including niche, clown, protagonist, and supporting role." The memories of "Fan Ruijuan" on the stage aroused the fans in the audience. Disciples resonate.

"The teacher has always said that singing serves the characters, and she is very rigorous in teaching opera." Fan Ruijuan's student Han Tingting recalled that Fan Ruijuan sweated easily. When teaching "Butterfly Lovers" in the summer, Fan Ruijuan put a towel under her clothes. "Every time, the teacher personally demonstrated, A lot of towels were wet during the half-day rehearsal. "In 1984, Han Tingting participated in the Shaoxing Opera Grand Prix. After putting on makeup backstage at the People's Grand Stage, Fan Ruijuan continued to help her. "When students from other places come to Shanghai to perform, the teacher will definitely go backstage to help the students. Summarize experience teaching.”

Fan Ruijuan's rigor is everywhere. In "Shen Yuan's Song", Lu You takes the stage with a sword. Han Tingting performed seven performances of "Shen Yuan's Song" at the China Grand Theater. Fan Ruijuan was required to attend every performance and reminded, "The sword does not appear in the plot, but it shows Lu You's character. It must not be omitted."

Another impression that Fan Ruijuan left on Han Tingting is that she always listens to recordings of Peking Opera and other operas at home. Apart from eating and sleeping, she is just thinking about opera. I studied opera in the afternoon and went to her house at noon. She woke up at noon. , lying on the bed, I will also habitually hum and practice my legs at the same time, not missing a minute. "

Student Fang Xuewen used to take the green train every weekend, spending 4 hours from Zhejiang to Shanghai to study opera, and lived and ate with Fan Ruijuan. "The teacher was in his fifties at the time, and he always insisted on practicing kung fu and legs, striving for excellence. The teacher said that young actors must have good leg skills to look good in boots. Sometimes when we are walking on the road, she can't help but show me the leg movements. The teacher is like our mother, telling us to start a career first and then start a family. Good people will have a brighter future."

"The Peacock Flies Southeast and the Bird Dies" Jiao Zhongqing: Fang Xuewen

"Green Shirt and Red Robe" on May 2 is a Zhang Hui Yue opera premiered in 2005 by Zhang Ruihong, a direct disciple of the Fan School. The play reveals the mental journey of ancient Chinese literati through four different characters: Zheng Yuanhe, Zhu Maichen, Sima Xiangru and Li Bai. Zhang Ruihong performed together with Wang Rousang and Wang Shuwen, two further disciples of the Fan School, and Dong Xinxin, the youngest successor of the Fan School at the Shanghai Yue Opera Theatre, fully demonstrating the style of the disciples of the Fan School.

2024 is the 70th anniversary of the premiere of the Yue opera film "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai". Xianxiaqiang of Yue Opera was born during the creation and arrangement of "Shan Bo's Death". "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" on May 3 will highlight the characteristics of the various genres of Yue Opera. In addition to Liang Shanbo performed by five young students of the Fan School, the performance also invited artists from the Yuan School, Fu School, Wang School, Jin School, and Qi School to join the performance. There are both familiar genre combinations to the audience, as well as genre classics that are collaborated for the first time, which also reflects The spirit of unity in Yue Opera.

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