Cao Rulong
Lineage & School of Heritage
He first studied the painted-face role under the celebrated Xiangju actors He Huakui and Zeng Jingui, and later studied the laosheng (old male) role under Chen Churu and Liao Jianhua.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in July 1949 in Changsha, Hunan Province. He is a national first-grade actor. In 1959 he was admitted to the Xiangju performance program of the Changsha College of Arts and, after graduating, was assigned to the First Changsha Xiangju Troupe (now the Changsha Xiangju Protection and Inheritance Centre). He possesses a distinctive personal vocal technique and performance style, can grasp a character's temperament with accuracy, and has successfully created many vivid and sharply differentiated stage images. He has taught in the actor training classes of the art department jointly run by the Hunan Provincial Art School and the Hunan Provincial Xiangju Theatre, and at the Changsha Xiangju Theatre, passing on Xiangju singing and performance art and training a large group of successors for the development of the genre.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Xiangju Opera, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has received the Ministry of Culture's Fourth Wenhua Performance Award, the Thirteenth Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, the Outstanding Performance Award of the Fourth Chinese Drama Festival, and the title of Artist of Both Virtue and Art from the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Xiangju Opera Ⅳ-127
- Xiangju Opera Ⅳ-127
- Xiangju Opera Ⅳ-127
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