Master of Chinese Opera

Chapter 227 Dreaming of Tang Xianzu

"Boss Shen's "The Peony Pavilion" is elegant in writing, beautiful in language, and deeply moving. It is the most outstanding script Yu has ever seen in his life."

After seeing the Kunqu opera script of "The Peony Pavilion" a month ago, the famous actress Yu Zhenfei admired the writer Shen Yuelou's literary and opera skills.

Seeing Boss Shen's real body today, Boss Yu immediately expressed his reverence face to face.

Han Zaifen also said to Shen Yuelou with a look of admiration: "Boss Shen's "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" is also the best Chinese Huangmei drama script, and the ending of Huadie is so beautiful. I really don't know how you came up with this Poignant story."

"Mr. Han, Boss Yu, if you two continue to boast, Shen will really feel ashamed."

Shen Yuelou humbly accepted Han Zaifen and Yu Zhenfei's sincere praise.

After all, the quality of the two scripts he produced is indeed outstanding.

After a few polite words, Shen Yuelou began to think seriously about the next rehearsal.

He has long been familiar with the Peking opera "Life and Death", so he doesn't need to spend too much effort.

The Huangmei opera "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" is not a big problem for him.

After all, Ben was born in the hometown of Huangmei, has been exposed to it since he was a child, and has a master-level opera talent, so he can understand by analogy.

The difficulty lies in the fact that as soon as "The Peony Pavilion" came out, Kunqu opera was more difficult than Peking opera, and he did not study it systematically.

As for, he was very uncertain about how to perform the role of Du Liniang superbly.

"Boss Yu, please call all the Kunqu opera performers who will be participating in "The Peony Pavilion" here tomorrow. Let's sort out the book first. If Shen feels that he is not up to the task, the actor who previously applied for Du Liniang will take the role. So as not to show cowardice in front of the Japanese people in time."

This is an alternative that Shen Yuelou had thought of long ago, not only the role of Du Liniang, but also the role of Liang Shanbo in "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", he also asked Han Zaifen to find an alternative.

"Okay, Yu will bring the actor over tomorrow."

After communicating with Yu Zhenfei about the rehearsal of "The Peony Pavilion", Shen Yuelou and Han Zaifen made an appointment for the rehearsal time of "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai".

"Mr. Han, how about we start rehearsing "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" the day after tomorrow?"

"Okay, at eight o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow, I will call all the actors in the troupe here."

After Yu Zhenfei and Han Zaifen left the Tianqiao Theater, Shen Yuelou rehearsed "Life and Death" with the actors of the "Lou Opera Troupe".

He also handed over this script to the actors in the Lou Theater Troupe early on.

In previous rehearsals, Zhao Xiyu was always playing the role of Han Yuniang.

After a simple rehearsal of the script, I felt that every actor who applied for the job performed very well. Shen Yuelou knew that Boss Lin had put a lot of effort into organizing and supervising the rehearsal of the actors.

"Thank you everyone, I'm here today, when I'm not around in the next few days, you will continue to rehearse with Boss Lin.

Performing abroad is a rare opportunity for every actor, everyone must cherish it. "

"Don't worry, Junior Brother, everyone will work hard."

After the rehearsal, Shen Yuelou returned home alone.

Back home, lying on the bed, Shen Yuelou began to seriously think about tomorrow's rehearsal of Kunqu Opera "The Peony Pavilion".

For the classic role of Du Liniang, he naturally didn't want to give up.

However, many famous Kunqu opera masters from China will come over tomorrow. If I behave too badly, even if I am the playwright of "The Peony Pavilion", it is not easy to force Du Liniang's role.

After all, going to Yingzhou is to win glory for the country, not to lose face in Yingzhou.

what can we do about it?

In a short period of time, if you want to quickly improve your Kunqu opera skills, especially the "Peony Pavilion", you can only rely on the road of dreaming.

However, if you want to dream of Du Liniang, the best time is after you enter Yingzhou and before you decide to perform "The Peony Pavilion". Otherwise, if the time interval is too long, the real feeling will gradually fade away, and the effect of the performance will naturally gradually fade.

Tonight, I might try to dream about Tang Xianzu.

Anyway, my opera prestige points and literary prestige points are too much to use up, and my guru demeanor is high enough to ensure that my state of mind is not lost, and it doesn't matter if I fall asleep a few more times.

Entering the System Learning Paradise, spending 50 opera prestige points and 100 million literary prestige points, Shen Yuelou began to dream of Tang Xianzu.

The first step is to select the learning object Tang Xianzu, and the second step is to start the deep learning mode.

The deep learning mode was turned on, and Shen Yuelou's consciousness gradually sank into a virtual world.

……

On August 29th in the [-]th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, with a cry, "Shen Yuelou" was born in a scholarly family named Tang in Wenchangli, Linchuan.

The four generations of his ancestors all had literary names, and most of them were full of economical scholars; his mother was also familiar with poetry and books since childhood.

The serious attitude of the ancestors to study also affected the young Tang Xianzu.

Since he was a child, he was talented, intelligent, diligent and studious. He entered a family school at the age of five, was able to write poems at the age of 12, learned ancient prose from Xu Liang at the age of 13, and became a student in the county at the age of 14.

When he was 14 years old, Wu Changcheng brought his young daughter to Sichuan to visit his friend Xu Liangbo. At this time, Xu Liangbo was teaching in a private school, and Tang Xianzu was studying in this private school.

Because Xu Liangbo liked this talented student very much, he specially introduced him to his friends.

When Wu Changcheng saw it, he fell in love with the boy for ten minutes, and immediately wanted to adopt him as Chenglong Kuai's son-in-law.

Tang Xianzu was young and handsome, imposing, and Wu Yuying was beautiful and talented. Both parties fell in love with each other at first sight, so the marriage was settled.

But because the two were still young and hadn't reached the age to marry, Tang Xianzu waited for Wu Yuying for six years.

In the year of the weak crown, Tang Xianzu and Wu Yuying got married, and the two loved each other like glue.

In his spare time, Tang Xianzu played the piano and read books by the window, while Yuying sat beside him mending clothes.

Watching the love affair between Tang Xianzu and Wu Yuying, Shen Yuelou suddenly had the idea of ​​wanting to fall in love.

The love between a man and a woman is innate. I was busy with my career before and didn't care about others. Now that I have achieved fame, I can think about my life's major events.

In order to create better living conditions for Wu Yuying, and also for his inner ambition, Tang Xianzu embarked on the road of imperial examination that most scholars would take.

However, because of his talent and reputation among officials, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant, wanted him to help his son cheat in the exam.

After rejecting the chief assistant Zhang Juzheng, Tang Xianzu was suppressed and failed in repeated attempts.

Tang Xianzu was exhausted both physically and mentally due to repeated failures. Similarly, Wu Yuying also suffered from physical and mental torture. Due to overwork, she unfortunately contracted tuberculosis.

(End of this chapter)