Wu Rujun, male, born in 1963, now living in Japan, is an artist. He is currently the director of the Japanese Peking Opera Theatre. He is an actor who is currently active on the stage. He is proficient in everything from acting to writing. He has written, directed and performed such sensational Peking Opera plays as Wu Zetian and Maid-in-waiting Journey to the East. Moreover, he has lived in Japan for more than ten years and has been successful in it for hundreds of years.
Chinese name: Wu Rujun.
Nationality: China.
Date of birth: 1963
Occupation: actor
Graduate School: China Theatre Academy.
Representative works: Maid-in-waiting Journey to the East, Sisters of the Song Dynasty, Wu Zetian, etc.
Height: 174cm
Blood type: O type
Ancestral home: Fengtai, Anhui
Position: Dean of Japanese Peking Opera Theatre
Character experience
Wu Rujun's father is a famous composer and jinghu performer Wu Lechang, and his mother is a famous veteran Peking Opera actor Wu Fenglou. Both of them have had classic masterpieces, such as The Old Electrician and Liu An, King of Huainan. 1In August, 963, Wu Ruao was born in Nanjing, the ancient capital of Jinling, and then came to Anhui with his parents who worked in Peking Opera Theatre.
1963 was born in Nanjing.
1984 graduated with honors from China Opera Academy and entered China Peking Opera Theatre to become a young pianist.
1986 "jinghu light music" with jinghu as the main body was awarded the best work award by the Ministry of Culture of China.
1987 starred in the movie A Dream of Red Mansions and played Jiang Yuhan.
1988 held the first jinghu solo concert in Beijing.
1989 A new Peking Opera "King of Huainan", which was written and directed by the author, premiered in Beijing.
1996 completed the first album "Suite/History of the Three Kingdoms" in the music history of Jinghu.
1997 held a solo concert in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
1998 held the 25th anniversary concert of Wu Rujun performing arts in Fukuoka, Japan.
1999 performed at the Sino-Japanese folk concert on the 50th anniversary of the founding of Beijing.
200 1 Performed the original and innovative Peking Opera "Maid-in-waiting Journey to the East", playing Yang Guifei. Known as "2 1 century male Dan".
In 2002, she published her first album "It's SFORYOU", which became the mainstream recording industry in Japan. He was invited by DoAsInfinity to play "Real Poetry".
In 2003, she starred in the new Peking Opera "Wu Zetian". Won the "17 Japan Gold Record Award-Special Award for the 30th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan". The second album Dreamland was released. A concert was held in Shibuya to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
In 2004, he starred in the feature film "Last Love, First Love" co-produced by China and Japan. Dunhuang, A Journey to the Heart is presented in Japanese and Chinese respectively. Starring in Simitu, written and directed by Chang 'an Grand Theatre. The third album "Love" was released. Together with the China Opera Symphony Orchestra, they toured all over Japan and held the "Three Kingdoms Concert". And starred in the domestic feature film "Aaron the Transformed Warrior".
In 2005, he participated in the performance of NHK long TV series "Dahua changed its letter". Play boat in Huichi. Participate in the composition of the NHK TV series Yijing. Guest performance at China Pavilion of Aichi World Expo. At the same time, the DVD and CD of the suite "Three Kingdoms" were released. The special album "Bridge" was grandly listed.
In 2006, the "Bridge" tour was held in Japan. Starring in the China drama Swan Lake produced by the Ministry of Culture of China. Participated in the performance of "JAL Sound Stage" at Dongfu Temple in Kyoto.
At the beginning of 2006, when Sino-Japanese relations were approaching freezing point, Wu Rujun built a bridge and accompanied Mrs. Abe to China all the way, starting an "envoy trip", which contributed to Abe's "ice-breaking trip" of great significance to Sino-Japanese diplomacy.
On June 65438+1October 2 1 2006, China's first drama about turning into a hero, a real-life masked superman drama, and the special film "A Long Turning into a Warrior" was shown in the animation channel of Beijing TV Station (BTV- 10) at the weekend theater, giving children a super gift.
In 2007, at the invitation of CCTV-1/Learn from Me, I filmed the appreciation and teaching of Jinghu.
In March 2007, he appeared on the cover of Japan's most famous financial magazine, Japan Finance, and affirmed and praised his efforts in attracting investment and construction for China and Japan, especially for his hometown of Nanjing.
In autumn of 2008, in recognition of Wu Rujun's contribution to Sino-Japanese cultural and financial diplomatic friendship, the Japanese Emperor specially invited Wu Rujun to attend the autumn "Palace Garden Party" attended by only a few important contributors in Japan. After the Garden Party, Wu Rujun immediately led the Japanese financial dignitaries who also attended the Garden Party to fly to China for an exchange visit with people from all walks of life in his hometown.
In the spring of 2008, Wu Rujun was a torchbearer in Japan for the Beijing Olympic Games. In the same year, he became an honorary professor at Fukuoka Women's University in Japan, which made the university cancel the original plan of inviting Dalai to be an honorary professor.
In early 2009, Wu Rujun accompanied Yukio Hatoyama, the new Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Party, to visit China.
In mid-2009, Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications published a set of Wu Rujun stamps, which was the first time that a Japanese boarded Japanese stamps, and it was a positive praise for Wu Rujun's promotion of Sino-Japanese friendship over the years.
On the 60th birthday of China in 2009, Wu Ruao, as an outstanding figure in China's cultural communication, attended the grand National Day ceremony.
At the beginning of 20 10, Wu rujun went to five American cities for a 20-day lecture tour at the invitation of all walks of life in the United States.
2065438+June 2000 1 -7, Wu Rujun Week will be held in the United Nations Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo, named after Wu Rujun. At that time, Meng Mu's three major movements will be presented to the people of the world as the carriers of China's harmony and China's kindness.
20 12 03 17, employed as an adjunct professor at Qufu Normal University.
20 18 was invited to participate in the recording of CCTV-4 CCTV Chinese International Channel "The World Listen to Me".
Major achievements
Beijing opera
Wu Ruao's fame was first attributed to a Jinghu. Later, it was caused by Wu's Tsing Yi. Wu Rujun graduated from China Theatre Academy. From 65438 to 0984, 22-year-old Wu Rujun was admitted to China Peking Opera Theatre with the first prize, and worked as a piano player for Peking Opera performers such as Li Weikang and Geng Qichang. He had extensive cooperation with Liu Changyu, Du Jinfang, Yuan Shihai and other famous Peking Opera artists, and led a generation of coquettish performances in his early twenties. Wu Rujun has a handful of Jinghu. After its massage, pearls and jade splash, and the sound of the piano is graceful and fascinating. Later, Wu Ruao founded the Jinghu light music playing method and then created the Jinghu symphony ensemble, which was refreshing. Traditional musical instruments are integrated with western symphonies, and through difficult fingering and bowing, the beautiful artistic conception of a hundred birds contending, a bird flying on the grass, a river of no return and an iron horse is depicted with the sound of the piano, which opens up a broad space for Jinghu's performance. Therefore, Wu Zhuangjun won the reputation of "Jingxiang Wizard" for himself. When he went to Japan to perform, he caused a sensation several times and had many "piano fans".
AVEX
Sure enough, many things happen. Wu Rujun's extraordinary musical creativity has won the favor of AVEX, a famous Japanese record company. Wu Rujun has the opportunity to cooperate with many top Japanese musicians, such as Kitaro, which is very popular in China, Mikujin, a composer who once wrote many best-selling songs for Teresa Teng, Katsuhisa Hattori, Inoue and Seiji Kameda. , enjoys a high reputation in the Japanese industry. In his own words, "From China to Japan, we kept chasing our dreams, and everyone we met along the way also had their own dreams. Many dreams are intertwined and collide, transcending national boundaries and races, and generate shows the power to realize stronger dreams. " . Jinghu
1988, fate led Wu Rujun to Fusang. A jinghu became his golden key to the Japanese stage. Every time he faces a foreign audience, he has to convey the singing method of Chinese Peking Opera while playing. One person, one mouth, magically and vividly performing ugliness appreciation, singing and playing; Try to introduce the quintessence of China in the audience's mother tongue. In music creation, he began to explore modern western electronic synthesizers. Fully show the tension between jinghu and Beijing opera, and let jinghu's timbre stand out in the bedding of electronic synthetic music.
Wu Rujun's extraordinary musical creativity has won the favor of AVEX, a famous music record company with superstars such as Ayumi Hamasaki and Namie Amuro. Wu Rujun is lucky to have Kitaro. He described the artistic conception of Dunhuang and the Silk Road, and has many fans in China. Miki TAKASHI, who wrote a lot of best-selling songs for Teresa Teng, cooperated with other top musicians.
In 2002, an album entitled "It's SFORYOU" was among the top five Japanese classical music records for three consecutive months. The famous magazine AERA, known as Japanese Time Magazine, also covered Wu Rujun in a large space. At the same time, as the only instrument player, he appeared in AVEX Records' annual concert in Country A, which shows his reputation in the Japanese industry. With such a rare achievement, AVEX Record Company, which has always been famous for demanding high-quality music, has more confidence in Wu Rujun's talent and decided to formally recommend his music works to the motherland.
In 2003, Wu Rujun won the "Japan Golden Record Award-Special Award for the 30-year normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan". Since then, he has made persistent efforts to release albums such as Dreamland and Love, and dedicated his own album Bridge in 2005. A mouthful of jinghu brings people into the mysterious artistic conception of music, either cheerful and lively, or low and sad, or full of ambition, or euphemistic and moving, and interprets music into a visible landscape, full of vitality.
be popular
Wu Rujun, a famous Peking Opera actor, is no less famous in Japan than pop stars such as Ayumi Hamasaki and Namie Amuro, and his fans are all heavyweight. He often appears at banquets hosted by Japanese parliamentarians, ladies, businessmen and celebrities. Wu Rujun participates in more than 60 such performances every year.
With personal charm and profound artistic attainments, Wu Rujun and his Japanese wife became guests of the Abe couple, and the two families forged a profound friendship.
weed through the old to bring forth the new
When Wu Rujun was a student, she accidentally sang Dan Jiao's unique falsetto. In his spare time, he studied and performed traditional Dan Jiao operas such as Shiro Visiting Mother and Erjin Palace. In the fifth grade of college, Zhang Junqiu, a famous Peking Opera artist, watched his whole performance "Spring and Autumn Competition". He said, "Twenty years ago, you were a little Mei Lanfang".
Wu Rujun studied traditional Japanese kabuki and energy, and watched Four Seasons and New Sense Line.
The musical of the troupe, inspired by foreign countries, awakened his inspiration and desire for artistic innovation. In 200 1 year, he resolutely raised the banner of "Oriental Opera" and wrote, directed and performed "Yang Guifei and Ma Lu in Abe" ("Maid-in-waiting Journey to the East"), which was performed all over Japan, with 27 performances sold out and achieved unprecedented success.
Half a year later, a more sensational "Wu Zetian" appeared on the stage of China and Japan in an unprecedented way. Wu Rujun showed the complicated changes of Wu Zetian's age, identity and personality from a girl to a woman, and then to the mother of the country, and created a real queen of China.
June, 5438+October, 2004 10, a "four beautiful pictures" realized Wu Ruxuan's long-cherished wish: to reshape the images of four beautiful women in ancient China. Shi He's "Chivalrous Love"; Love Song in the Desert by Wang Zhaojun and Hu Khan; The story of diusim and four men, Gone with the Wind; Yang Yuhuan and Li Longji's Love between Heaven and Earth, with Wu Ruao as the four beauties, created a precedent in the field of pear gardens and brought great innovation and change to the Chinese Peking Opera circle.
In August 2008, China's drama Swan Lake caused another shock. The classic scenes of the world-famous ballet are integrated with the expressions of China opera and other art categories, and the aria includes
Beijing Opera, Kunqu Opera, Pingju Opera, Yue Opera, Sichuan Opera, Huangmei Opera, Beijing Opera, etc. Ballet, China dance, Beijing Opera and Wushu, Sichuan Opera, and even magic and acrobatics were introduced. Wu Rujun personally plays the heroine and presents this classic work of world body language art to Chinese and Japanese audiences.
18 years ago, he set foot in Japan with a jinghu. Wu Rujun, born after 18, has the supreme reputation of "the first male Dan in Asia" and "the reincarnation of Mei Lanfang" and has become a popular star on the stage and TV in China and Japan. Former Prime Minister Junshu Haibei, current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party Gu Hecheng, former Chairman of Komeito Party Kanzaki Takenori and President of-China Friendship Association Noda Takeshi are all the most loyal fans of Wu Rujun Jinghu and Oriental Opera. Every time he goes to perform in various countries, hundreds of Japanese friends will charter flights to support him, wave and cheer with Japanese fans in the theater and cheer in a unique way.
Wu Rujun set himself the goal of performing ten plays in ten years, accumulating and developing constantly, and making his own way in singing, reading, doing, playing and dancing. And make their own drama and their own performance style can be left to a new generation of actors for reference.
Personal life
the japanese wife
1987, Wu Rujun met Akiko Taoshan who was traveling in China in Beijing and got married in Beijing the following year. At that time, Wu Ruao was very busy in China Peking Opera Theatre, and often could not accompany Zhao Zi back to Japan to visit relatives for a long time. In order to realize her husband's love for his wife, he decided to give up his achievements in China and go to Japan for development.
In Japan, some people say that Wu Rujun is a surprise for the inheritance and development of Peking Opera art, and the insiders give Wu Rujun the most evaluation: "This person is too tossing!" He himself is very willing to accept this evaluation, because only tossing can succeed. However, behind the "tossing" is the silent support of a Japanese wife, Akiko Taoshan, who is 2 1 year older than him. Every time Wu Rujun drinks water in a performance, Zhao Zi has to taste it first, and it is only lukewarm that it is handed to him. In order to protect Wu Rujun's hands, every time he goes out, he has to carry a heavy piano box by himself. At the end of each performance, in the face of her husband surrounded by flowers, applause and audience, Akiko must hide in an inconspicuous corner. Wu Rujun said that Zhao Zi gave me everything.
Stay with Mrs Abe.
Wu Rujun boldly said to the elderly Abe Zhao Hui: "Elder sister, you should go to China in person, spread your voice to China, and communicate with the Japanese people in advance about Abe's desire to be the first person in Sino-Japanese friendship and the policies he will implement in the future." Unexpectedly, Abe Zhaohui readily agreed to "play for 3 days" in Beijing. "Fortunately, she is Zhao Hui, so bold and straightforward, otherwise she wouldn't dare to go to China." Looking back, I don't know what effect Zhao Hui's visit to China can achieve. He joked, "If I don't succeed, I'll never hang out with China or Japanese again." So a month later, with an "uneasy" heart, Abe Zhaohui followed Wu Rujun and his wife to Beijing. However, when she got off the plane, Mrs Abe was very excited. Wu Rujun introduced that there is a "Guanyin" in China, and she asked to go to the Lama Temple without entering the hotel. Wu Rujun disclosed, "Abe Zhao Hui worshiped Sakyamuni first, and then worshipped Guanyin, the bodhisattva who sent his son. If the wish comes true, Mrs. Abe will also make a special trip to China to complete the' wishing trip'. "
Wu Rujun told the International Herald Tribune that after worshipping Buddha, Zhao Hui "had to order a cheongsam" because she wanted to wear Hanfu to meet senior friends in China. When she came to the Friendship Store, Zhao Hui chose pure black cloth and red cloth with a black background as cheongsam, and then she chose a pair of embroidered shoes and a China handbag.
"Zhao Hui's first dinner in China was held in Beijing Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant. She was full of praise for China roast duck and court dishes. After the dinner, Beijing friends invited Zhao Hui and his party to the Laoshe Teahouse of the Opera House for tea. " Wu Rujun said: "Zhao Hui was very excited to see the difference between China Tea Ceremony and Japanese Tea Ceremony. She didn't say goodbye until nearly midnight that day. " Like all foreign tourists visiting China for the first time, Abe Zhao Hui visited the Summer Palace, listened to the guqin and pipa, and took photos on the throne of Cixi.
Main work
musical creation
Personal photo album
Mirror lake album: bridge, dreamland, love. It's sforyou, Lion/True Poetry/Mei Yunjun Peak ~ 6 1 aria and accompaniment/East, West, North and South/Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter/If the wind is visible.
And the latest album: it's for you.
Newly-edited Peking Opera Wu Zetian, Song Sisters, Simitu, Du Dong, the Princess of Swan Lake, Tanabata Love, Zetian Emperor, Three Movements of Meng Mu and Notre Dame de Confucius.
Bonus; prize
Large-scale original and innovative Peking Opera Notre Dame de Confucius
Personality assessment
Good talent and understanding
Wu Rujun is gifted and smart. After watching others sing and dance, Wu Rujun's accompaniment of Jinghu is full of spirituality. He often walks around the stage with blue fingers, trying to figure out the hands, eyes and body steps of the actors on the stage. Wu Rujun was destined to be a Peking Opera. My father is a Peking Opera actor and my mother is an old Peking Opera actor. The infiltration of Peking Opera genes inside and outside, plus "love" the best teacher. One day, after Wu Rujun discovered that his voice could be true and false, and his voice could be freely high and low, his "Lingbo micro-step" era on the Peking Opera stage began, and it was out of control.
As we all know, learning drama and music is childlike innocence. When he was two or three years old, Wu Rujun listened to the master sing with a hand-cranked jukebox at home. His father is a Peking Opera actor, and his mother is an old Peking Opera actor in the troupe. They endowed him with natural closeness and love for Peking Opera. At the age of nine, he began to learn Peking Opera with his father. At the age of twenty-one, he graduated from China Opera Academy with the first prize and became a dancer and Peking Opera actor in China Peking Opera Theatre. He once played the piano for Li Weikang, Liu Changyu, Li Guang and other famous Peking Opera performers.
Jinghu is an accompaniment instrument for Beijing opera actors, but it is closer to the duet relationship of co-singing than the accompaniment instrument. Therefore, Beijing-Hu performers must be as familiar with singing as singers. However, students who study Beijing-Hu performance have no professional teacher's guidance in learning to sing, so they can only understand it by themselves. Wu Rujun seized every opportunity to learn and watch the performances of his predecessors. As long as there is an opportunity to cooperate with the master, he will devote himself wholeheartedly. For example, when working with teacher Li Weikang, he tried his best to understand her joys and sorrows, watch a play, ponder and practice, thus gradually making his playing and performance spiritual. When he cried on the stage, he also sobbed when he played Jinghu.
Wu Rujun became a monk halfway and taught himself. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he first discovered that he could sing Dandan in a falsetto, and made great efforts to make many training class actors sigh with sleeves and mellow, clear and beautiful voice become the "golden voice" recognized by the industry. Zhang Junqiu, a famous Peking Opera master, once praised him for his charm of "Little Mei Lanfang".
What's more, no matter how people evaluate the present situation and bleak prospects of Peking Opera, Wu Rujun never gave up Peking Opera and studied hard. Young people began to try to break through, and Jinghu Light Music, which was composed with Jinghu as a solo instrument, won the government award for outstanding works awarded by the Ministry of Culture of China in that year, and successfully held its own solo and solo Beijing Opera concert on 1988.
doings
Accuse by name
On the morning of July 4th, 20 13, Yukio Hatoyama and the Prime Minister's wife were named and accused of being spies in China, and they published the introduction advertisements of Wen Chun Weekly magazine in the morning papers, trams and subway cars of major Japanese cities.
Abe's wife apologizes.
Afterwards, Akie Abe said, "I'm really sorry that you have done so much for Japan-China exchanges, but that's what the magazine wrote." In addition, former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama also called. He said, "I didn't expect my speech in China to cause you so much trouble."
In an interview with Wen Chun Weekly, Mrs Abe made it clear: "I was moved by Wu Rujun's erhu and contacted him. For many years, he never talked or asked us any political questions. How can he be a spy? "
Personal point of view
Wu Rujun said, "I am engaged in cultural exchange activities in Japan, and I am very happy to be able to communicate with people from all walks of life in Japan, especially so many senior Japanese politicians. On the one hand, it shows that they appreciate and like China culture; On the other hand, it shows that they respect China culture and China cultural artists. In the hearts of some media people with cold war mentality, they can't understand this kind of communication, which is very sad! "
Regarding contacts with Japanese dignitaries, Wu Rujun said that he had known Hatoyama for more than 20 years. "He loves China culture and art very much. In other words, we became attached to each other because of China culture. In this way, he often invited me to perform or introduce China in some social activities he organized and participated in. Sometimes Japanese journalists can't get in. I can go in as a cultural envoy of China and a guest of China. Of course, some people may be jealous or even bear a grudge. " Wu Rujun said that he met some Japanese politicians while performing. Noda Takeshi, one of the presidents of the Liberal Democratic Party, watched his performances many times and became "addicted".
In Wu Rujun's view, art and culture have the penetrating power beyond national boundaries and nations. He said that it is particularly interesting that Japanese politicians with different political views, as well as politicians from the opposition party and the ruling party, will come to see his performance together. Sometimes, Mr. Abe and Mr. Hatoyama will attend at the same time. They all said that they felt an interpretation of great love and the pursuit of peace from his works.
On Japanese politics, Wu Rujun said, "Indeed, Japanese politics is unique. Many politicians love China culture and are willing to associate with people with China culture. After watching the performance, they often look for another opportunity to invite me to communicate in depth. There, there is their personal respect for me, but also a unique appreciation of China culture, the emotional transmission of appreciation. It should be a good thing to promote exchanges and exchanges between the people and politicians of the two countries through art media. "