See you soon!After the death of the national first-class actor, all the tickets for the performance were sold out.
On December 13, the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe released an obituary: Liu Yilong, a national first-class actor of the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, died at 14 o'clock on December 13, 2023 in Shanghai Ruijin Hospital due to ineffective treatment. He is 83 years old. According to Liu Yilong's last wishes, the funeral was very simple.
Liu Yilong was born in Wuhan. In 1953, when he was a teenager, Liu Yilong went to his grandmother's house in Shanghai and happened to meet the Shanghai Opera School to take his first Kunqu opera class. After Liu Yilong was admitted, he learned Xi Xiaosheng, Wusheng, and Hualien, playing Lao Dan, and finally fell into the trap of scandal.
Under the dedicated teaching of Kun Chou, Hua Chuanhao, Trump, Zhou Chuancang and other masters, and under the training of Yu Zhenfei, the principal of Shanghai Opera School, Liu Yilong became a famous ugly master and was known as "Kunming's pure ugly". Designed by Master Gardener Chen Congzhou.
Liu Yilong performs in the Sea Opera Garden.
In the early 60s of the 20th century, Liu Yilong won the Outstanding Performance Award at the 1960 Shanghai Youth Festival for his drama "Down the Mountain", and won the Outstanding Performance Award and the Corolla Award at the 2nd Shanghai Theater Festival for "Captured Alive". He played Gao Lishi in "The Palace of Eternal Life", won the first prize of supporting actor in Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performing Arts, and the first honorary performance award of the China Kunqu Opera Art Festival.
In 1993, he participated in the Spring Festival Gala "Ugly Fight for Spring".
Liu Yilong has created many characters loved by the audience, such as Lou Ashu in "Fifteen Runs", Zhu Bajie in "Monkey King Three Fights White Bone Spirit", Gao Lishi in "The Palace of Eternal Life", Hu Tu in "The Dry Well Case", ".
Ximen Qing and so on.
The famous Kunqu opera "Fifteen Runs" was once called "a drama for the revival of Kunqu opera". Ji Zhenhua played the role of Suzhou Taishou Zhong, disguised as an oracle, attracting the assassin Uncle Lou played by Liu Yilong to test his luck.
In the play, Kuang Zhong and Lou Ashu are like cats and mice, and every muscle on Liu Yilong's face seems to be "talking". In 1978, the two performed in "Fifteen Runs", creating an unprecedented 38-day and full-house event in Shanghai.
Liu Yilong played Lou Ashu in "Fifteen Runs".
Borrowing Tea" Liu Yilong is played by Zhang Wenyuan.
Liu Yilong played Lu Fengxuan in "Drunken Soap".
If you want to play ugly, you must first distinguish between beauty and ugliness, unless you have a strong love and hatred of good and evil, you will never be able to play a clown. Liu Yilong believes that why are Lou Ashu in "Fifteen Runs", the little monk in "Down the Mountain", and "Tang Zhi District" in "" so loved and loved by the audience?
This is because "the clown is not ugly, there is beauty in him". The audience often says that the artistic beauty of the villain lies in giving life to the ugly things while creating an ugly image, and completely exposing the ugly soul hidden under the mask of "beauty". For some flawed characters, deal with the sarcasm of them. Outward humor and inner sincerity should be unified.
Liu Yilong is both civil and military. He was dressed like a man and had a lot of fun. He enriched the Queensland language recitation and created the original Sichuan Queensland dialect, Cantonese, Wuhan dialect and other dialects with local language characteristics.
He can play a little monk, a big eunuch, an old Taoist aunt, and an ugly woman, all of which are full of drama.
Liu Yilong and his students.
Liu Yilong has trained a large number of excellent clown actors, and many of his students have performed in many opera repertoire across the country.
Gu Haohao, head of the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe and Kunqu Opera artist, revealed in an interview with the Morning Post reporter that she had just said goodbye to Mr. Liu in front of the hospital bed and was very sad. Gu Haohao recalled that in the 90s of the 20th century, when he was a student, he had taken Mr. Liu's class. He is a strict teacher, but he is also very kind to his students.
She told reporters that even in her later years, Mr. Liu still went all out and was meticulous every time she performed on stage. I'm in my 80s for the past few years. Even if I'm not fit to be on stage again, I still care about the legacy. I use my home as a classroom and continue to teach drama to the next generation of students. His departure made the Kunqu opera people and the audience regret it.
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