Liu Shiming
Liu Shiming (1938-august 8, 2017), male, born in Beijing in 1938, originally from Shandong, is a famous tenor, opera performing artist, national first-class actor, member of the 12th Central Committee of the Chinese peasants and Workers Democratic Party, and a special allowance recipient of the State Council. His representative works include Xiao erhei's marriage, Liu Hulan, Bai maonv and Dou E yuan.
On August 8, 2017, he died in Beijing Friendship Hospital at the age of 80 because of ineffective treatment for cancer.
Life of the characters
Born in Beijing in 1938, Liu Shiming, a teenager, not only has excellent performance, but also loves performing arts.
In 1958, Liu Shiming was admitted to the foreign languages college and the Central Academy of drama at the same time.
In 1962, he graduated from the performance Department of the Central Academy of drama. In the same year, he was assigned to the Central Experimental opera house as an opera actor and soloist. Later, he studied with Professor Jiang Jiaxiang of the Central Conservatory of music. His music career started in 1962. White haired girl, starring Guo Lanying, a famous Opera artist, wants to choose a new opera partner and transfer him to China Opera and dance theater because the former partner is old. He was just 23 years old. Since then, he and Guo Lanying have performed together for more than 20 years. When Guo Lanying said goodbye to the stage, she performed four pieces of Opera: "Xiao erhei's marriage", "Liu Hulan", "white haired girl" and "Dou E yuan", all performed by Liu Shiming. Most people know him more or less because he sang a beautiful legend by Lv Yuan in the 1980s.
Singing style
His singing voice is bright, sweet, clear and mellow. In particular, Northern Shaanxi folk songs are handled seamlessly, which is hard for others to reach. For example, "food and clothing" and "guerrillas come down from Hengshan.". It is said that Liu divorced in 1970 and lived a single life. He is still full of voice after his 70s. Outstanding tenor Nie Jianhua is one of his students and one of the few outstanding tenors in China who can be on par with Pavarotti. Liu Shiming loved singing all his life and devoted his whole life to his favorite singing stage. Liu Shiming's life creed is to sing with heart and be modest. Indifferent to fame and wealth, in the ordinary to create their own brilliant life.
Main works
Music Album
variety show
Award winning record
Liu Shiming has starred with Guo Lanying, a famous opera performing artist, in dozens of large-scale national operas, such as Xiao erhei's marriage, Bai maonv, Dou E yuan, Guo Lanying's Opera fragment party, etc. He played Dou tianzhang in the opera Dou'e yuan and won the performance award and excellent award from the Ministry of culture. He won the first prize of performance awarded by the Ministry of culture in the evening party of Guo Lanying's Opera fragments. In 1991, he won a special award from the Ministry of culture in the evening party of opera fragments.
He sang and recorded the theme song of the TV series the legend of the wooden fish stone: "a beautiful legend" won the gold award of the new era film and television excellent song competition issued by the film and Television Association and the first prize of the youth's favorite song selected by the National Youth Federation.
Character evaluation
Liu Shiming's singing voice is bright, sweet, clear and mellow. He is deeply rooted in national and folk art. He has a lot of research on opera art, such as Peking Opera, Jingyun Dagu, and folk songs. Therefore, he can accurately grasp the style of songs when singing folk songs. (people's online review)
The death of a character
On August 8, 2017, Comrade Liu Shiming died in Beijing at the age of 80.
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Liu Shiming