On the evening of April 13, the Sichuan Grand Theater, which can accommodate 1,500 spectators, was packed with seats. The audience applauded and laughed continuously. Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe's Yue Opera "Chen Sanliang" was performed here.
The play stars Li Yunxiao, Wang Xiaolong, Zhang Yazhou and others. Red Star News reporters saw at the scene that the audience coming to watch the play was mainly young audiences, and everyone felt the youthful beauty of Chinese opera.
In an interview with a reporter from Red Star News after the performance, Li Yunxiao specially thanked the audience in Chengdu: "The applause made us excited on stage and made us more emotional. Thank you."
Yue Opera "Chen Sanliang" is based on "Huahua" Adapted from "The Gentleman", it is a representative work of the Lu School of Yue Opera. The play tells the story of Li Suping (played by Li Yunxiao), a talented girl from a scholarly family in the late Ming Dynasty, when the officialdom was sinister and corrupt officials were rampant. Because her father won the Jinshi Scholarship and refused to pay bribes to officials, she was punished. He died, but was forced to sell his body to bury his father and support his younger brother. Although she fell into prostitution by mistake, she remained clean and self-reliant. She sold literature under the stage name "Chen Sanliang" to survive, and trained her foster brother Chen Kui to become the top scholar in a new subject.
Later, because she refused to marry a wealthy businessman as a concubine, she was tortured by a corrupt state official who violated the law. Unexpectedly, the state official turned out to be her brother Li Fengming, who had been separated for 12 years, which made her devastated. In the end, her grievances were revealed under the investigation of her adopted brother Chen Kui, who was on patrol as an official. She returned home with her younger brother Li Fengming, who had been demoted to work for the people.
In the play, Li Yunxiao's performance is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. He expresses the characters' rich emotions and twists and turns in a clear-cut way, and always affects the emotions of the audience. There are many classic arias in the play, especially the song "Scolding the Hall", which won a round of applause from the audience. In addition to Li Yunxiao, young actors such as Wang Xiaolong and Zhang Yazhou also performed wonderfully, portraying the characters they played vividly.
Last year, the new Chinese-style ambient Shaoxing opera "New Dragon Gate Inn" became popular, with Li Yunxiao's charming gold-inlaid jade character. At the same time, on the stage of the 2024 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Li Yunxiao and his partner Chen Lijun performed a new version of "Butterfly Lovers·Caoqiao Sworn", allowing more audiences to feel the charm of Yue Opera.
Talking about the change of mentality after becoming popular, Li Yunxiao said in an interview with a reporter from Red Star News, "Continue to enjoy the stage, move forward purely, and never forget the original intention." Li Yunxiao said bluntly that she will work hard to accumulate material in life and enrich her understanding of life. Experience and deduce more works that are more in line with current aesthetic needs.
Red Star News reporter Zhang Shihao Intern Wu Sixuan Editor Zeng Qi
