In order to protect himself from the pollution of Shili Yangchang, Yuan Xuefen secretly set a standard for himself: "Be a clean and honest person and do things seriously." She doesn't worship, sing, accept gifts or eat invitations. She wears light makeup and has a long braid on her back, indicating that she doesn't want to go along with this dirty society. But in the old society, independence was easier said than done. If nothing else, you can't act without a venue. What's more, in the old society, the artist's artistic life was short. When famous actors are in their early thirties, even if they are "old", they will worry about being abandoned by their bosses. So they want to raise money to build a day and night theater. Yuan Xuefen and others actively ran around and organized ten famous actors who were originally divided into four troupes to perform "Love between Mountains and Rivers" on the same stage, hoping to build a theater and run a drama school with the money from the performance. However, they are too naive to think that such a good thing will never hinder others. I didn't know that the Shanghai Social Bureau of the Kuomintang suddenly ordered the performance of "Mountain Love" to stop. What shall we do? Sisters should unite against them! Finally, the sisters won. However, they didn't know how to win at that time.
The growth of "Ten Sisters of Yue Opera" makes Yue Opera bloom like flowers. This is inseparable from the sunshine and rain of the party. Comrade Zhou Enlai is watching Yue Opera in Shanghai. Afterwards, he told Yu Ling and Liu Housheng, comrades of the underground party organization in Shanghai cultural circle, that it was a surprise to come to Shanghai to watch Yue Opera this time. These girls, all daughters of farmers, were persecuted and entered the city, and their lives changed. Some of them pursue progress. The party should take the initiative to approach them, unite them, help them and guide them to progress, because they have a broad mass base.
Under the care of the Party, a number of new literary and art workers, such as Liu Housheng, joined the work of the Yue Opera Troupe, which promoted the continuous innovation and development of the Yue Opera in terms of screenwriter, director, music, stage art and performance, making it a comprehensive and distinctive opera work.
After liberation, under the guidance and education of the Party, most of the ten sisters joined the Party. However, the road ahead is tortuous. As we all know, Xiao Dangui, a famous actress among the ten sisters, committed suicide in the old society because of the abuse of hooligans and bullies. The nine surviving sisters also suffered greatly during the Cultural Revolution. When Lin Biao and the Gang of Four were rampant, the two sisters were put in the bullpen and suffered numerous physical and mental tortures. Zhu Shuizhao was brutally persecuted to death in 1968 because he was humiliated and unwilling to frame his comrades. Jiang Qing and his gang trampled on Yue Opera and persecuted its artists, but the people missed them and gave them confidence and strength. It is these audiences who love them very sincerely that inspire them to stand the test and move on in ten years. Crushed the evil "Gang of Four". The sisters of Yue Opera were liberated again. One by one, they took to the stage with passion. Yuan Xuefen resumed the performance of Sister Xianglin, and Fu Quanxiang performed Peacock Flying Southeast again, which was quite influential among the audience of Yue Opera. Xu Yulan, Wang performed the lyric comedy West Garden. After watching their performance, the fans of Yue Opera smiled with tears and said, "Yue Opera has revived, and its youth is back!" " "
The "Ten Sisters of Yue Opera" not only have their own specialties, but also have their own characteristics in singing and performance. During the 40-50 years' stage practice, they have contributed to the innovative development of Yue Opera and the enrichment of China opera art ... Yuan Xuefen is an excellent actor familiar to the audience of Yue Opera and one of the founders of its reform. She is handsome and generous in disguise, simple and delicate in performance, and good at revealing the inner world of characters. Her singing is relaxed, mellow and full of charm. She has appeared in more than 100 plays, and successfully created many female images with different times and personality characteristics. Such as Zhu Yingtai, Cui Yingying, Xianglinsao, Mulan, Liang Hongyu, Qiu Jin and so on.
Yin Guifang, a famous actor of Yue Opera, has a generous voice, beautiful timbre, free and easy singing and unique artistic genre. Drama critics said: "Whether it is smart and kind Jia Baoyu, Liang Yushu or indomitable doctor Qu Yuan, she can dig into the hearts of the characters, master their unique temperament and demeanor, and shape them into gripping and touching artistic images." Yin Guifang has performed hundreds of plays since he officially took the stage. Among them, Butterfly Lovers is her famous play. The image of Liang Shanbo she created is steady and affectionate, implicit and unrestrained. Her performance in Back to Eighteen was even more unique, which left a deep impression on the audience. Looking for a Wife is also her housekeeping play. In addition, such as A Dream of Red Mansions, Qu Yuan, The West Chamber, Mingyue Pavilion, He Wenxiu, etc. , is also her strength. She has a wide range of plays and can play all kinds of roles. What's more worth mentioning is that her drama morality is very good, which is well received by the literary and art circles and the audience.
On the stage of Yue Opera, handsome manners and passionate emotions are the artistic characteristics of the famous actor Xu Yulan. And her wide road and loud voice are her specialties. After liberation, Xu Yulan performed a large number of dramas with genre characteristics and created a series of characters with distinctive personalities. For example, Lin Chong in Lin Chong, Wuji in Xinling Gongzi, Guan Hanqing in Guan Hanqing, Zhang Xun in The West Chamber, Li Menglong in Chun Xiang Zhuan, Zhang zhen in Chasing Fish, Jia Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions and Zhang Jihua and Zhang Jihua in West Garden. Xu Yulan brought these roles to life on the stage and was praised by the audience.
Among the "Ten Sisters of Yue Opera", Zhu Shuizhao is very good to both students. Zhu Shuizhao, a native of Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, started her stage life on 1935. When she first cooperated with Yin Guifang and Fu Quanxiang, she was famous for playing Hua Dan. She changed the role of Sheng Jiao in 1947 and once performed with Qi Yaxian. She looks beautiful and dignified. Her singing and performance are characterized by simplicity, kindness and touching. Her representative works include Liu Yichuan and Southern Crown Grass. Comrade Guo Moruo spoke highly of her role as Xia Huanchun in "Southern Crown Grass".
Three of the "Ten Sisters of Yue Opera" are minority actors. In addition to Yin Guifang and Xu Yulan, there is Fan Ruijuan who is good at playing honest and simple Confucian scholars. Fan Ruijuan has a solid foundation in drama since primary school. On weekdays, I am honest and simple, diligent and studious. She can not only play sensible Confucian scholars such as Liang Shanbo and Xu Xian, but also be good at playing simple and honest peasant images such as He Laoliu, and can also create heroic images with general style such as Han Shizhong. Her voice is broad and clear, her words are clear and charming. Her singing and performance are unique in the small business of Yue Opera.
Some people call Fu Quanxiang in "Ten Sisters of Yue Opera" Cheng of Yue Opera. Why is this? Someone asked Fu Quanxiang. She said, "That's what everyone else says. I really don't deserve it. Teacher Cheng is a master of performing arts. Compared with him, the pond is better than the sea. However, I really admire his performing arts. He is my favorite and most admired performing artist. Fu Quanxiang has many private school teachers. In addition to Cheng mentioned above, there are Xu, an old storyteller, Xun Huisheng, a famous dancer of Beijing Opera, Zhou Mulian of Sichuan Opera and Zhu Chuanming of Kunqu Opera. But among them, Cheng's singing art has the greatest influence on her. Because she learned and absorbed the singing method of "Cheng School" in Beijing Opera, she achieved the combination of true and false voices. Her singing is beautiful and mellow, and her tune is euphemistic. She is famous for her passion and delicacy in her performance. Her artistic images of Guangxi, Du Shiniang and Harmony are touching. Among the "Ten Sisters of Yue Opera", there is also a famous actress Xiao Dangui. She not only has a solid foundation, but also looks handsome and has good acting skills. Her performance is charming, dignified and natural. Because she not only absorbed the characteristics of stone singing, but also had her own creation, she enunciated clearly when singing, and was good at bringing rigidity with softness, so her singing was relaxed, lively, beautiful and smooth, and she was unique in the Yue Opera world. In the forties, Xiao Dangui performed in Shanghai, which was once a smash hit. However, such an excellent actor of Yue Opera was persecuted to death by Zhang Chunfan, a master of traditional Chinese opera, before liberation, and he was only about thirty years old.
Among the "Ten Sisters of Yue Opera", there are three senior actors, namely,, and Wu.
There is no one in the audience of Yue Opera who doesn't know Xu Tianhong. She is from Yuyao, Zhejiang. At the age of fourteen, she entered an ordinary class to study drama. He/Kloc-arrived in Shanghai at the age of 0/6, and performed with Zhao Ruihua, Ma Zhanghua, Yuan Xuefen, Yin Guifang and Qi Xixian. Xu Tianhong's Jia Zheng in a Dream of Red Mansions, the old fisherman in A Bright Moon in the Sky and Zhao Lidu in The West Chamber left a deep impression on people. She looks smart, dignified and graceful. Xu Tianhong also has a unique voice, rich and sonorous, which is quite unique.
Zhang Guifeng is one of the famous old actors in Yue Opera. Zhang Guifeng's singing is greatly influenced by Shao Qiang, and her singing is rich and simple with rich feelings. She plays a wide range of plays, and all decent villains play well. Zhang Guifeng's successful artistic images are Zhu in Butterfly Lovers, Han Shizhong in Jinshan War Drum, Tang Wang in Golden Branch and Wei in Xianglinsao. She also acted in the drama of betraying Lao Dan, such as Mrs Cui in The West Chamber and the old woman with two guns in Jiang Jie. Wu is one of the famous old actors in Yue Opera. Her performance is steady and generous, her movements are clean and neat, and her voice is particularly generous and loud. Her pronunciation is accurate, her mouth is vigorous, her singing is vigorous and full of passion. Wu's artistic images, such as Hong Xiuquan in Thunderstorm and Tang Huang in Golden Branch, are also quite successful.