嚴慶谷

简介

Yan Qinggu is a Peking opera actor born in Shanghai in 1970, with ancestral roots in Suzhou. He specializes in the clown role in Peking opera, mastering both martial and literary clown performances, and also performs monkey plays and cross-divers roles such as painted face, young male, lady and girl characters. He entered the Shanghai Opera School in 1981 and graduated in 1988, then joined the Shanghai Peking Opera Company. He earned a master's degree from the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts in Beijing in 1999 and became a national first-level actor in 2000. He studied Japanese Kyogen art in Japan in 2001 and returned to China in 2002. He won the China Theatre Award gold prize for his short play "The Death of a Petty Official" in 2007, along with the Outstanding Performance Award and the Most Popular Actor Award. He received the Shanghai Artist Honor Award in 2008. He has toured and lectured on Peking opera in many countries and regions. He has written several articles on Peking opera performance techniques and development.