Shangzhangrong

02-0513Peking OperaTraditional OperaShanghaiBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Shang Changrong is a son of the great Peking Opera master Shang Xiaoyun. He made his stage debut at five, began studying hualian (painted-face) roles at ten under Chen Furui as his first teacher, and later studied with Hou Xirui, Su Lianhan and other famous jing actors.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1940 in Beijing. Since the 1980s Shang Changrong has been continuously active on the Peking Opera stage. He is currently a leading figure of Peking Opera art in Shanghai, and he has taken pains to train many young actors both within and beyond his company. These three works have been hailed as the Shang Changrong Trilogy. His performance combines singing and recitation, with a proper sense of tension and release, and both his voice and his stage bearing are of high quality. His representative works include Cao Cao and Yang Xiu, The Glorious Age of Zhenguan and Yu Chenglong, the Incorruptible Official.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Peking Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a first-grade actor and a winner of the Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Theatre.

References & Archival Sources

Shangzhangrong · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Peking Opera
Item code: Ⅳ-28
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Shanghai
Born: 1940.07
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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