From both historical and artistic points of view,Qinqiang Opera can be considered a significant genre outside the realms of Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera.The research on Qinqiang Opera has long been a focal point in th...From both historical and artistic points of view,Qinqiang Opera can be considered a significant genre outside the realms of Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera.The research on Qinqiang Opera has long been a focal point in the research on local operas with particular emphasis from a local perspective of the Yisu Art Troupe,a key and hot topic in the studies of Qinqiang Opera.Taking the Yisu Art Troupe as a case study to scrutinize and address the intricacies within the process of modernization of traditional Chinese opera proved to be beneficial.Since the 20th century,studies on the Yisu Art Troupe have evolved from scattered and impressionistic self-narratives into systematic and theoretical academic research.In the new century,scholars,such as Xin Xuefeng,Li Youjun,and Guo Hongjun,have been especially diligent with studies in this field.As Xin Xuefeng is relatively unknown due to his emphasis on traditional opera music,Li Youjun and Guo Hongjun have gradually emerged as important contemporary scholars in the study of the Yisu Art Troupe.Guo and Li not only further theorize the study of the Yisu Art Troupe but also conduct in-depth and meticulous studies on the nature of the Yisu Art Troupe,the establishment of the director-centered mode in Qinqiang Opera,the social function,and the playwriting of the Yisu Art Troupe by examining and reflecting it within the broader context of the modernization of traditional Chinese opera in the 20th century.展开更多
The traditional musical instrument of minorities converges the evolution of ethnic group culture and history,and ethnic musical instruments are a core component of minority culture.The traditional instruments of Guang...The traditional musical instrument of minorities converges the evolution of ethnic group culture and history,and ethnic musical instruments are a core component of minority culture.The traditional instruments of Guangxi minorities are rich and varied,and an all-round cultural inheritance and protection mechanism should be used for ethnic musical instruments,so that the performance form of classical musical instruments of minorities can be more widely understood and mastered.Therefore,in this paper,we discuss the specific practice idea of the inheritance and development of classical musical instruments of Guangxi minorities,and facilitate the innovation of development path of ethnic musical instruments by taking the inheritance form of integrating musical instruments with operas.展开更多
Chinese traditional opera often uses singing, acting, speaking and fighting as unique forms of artistic performance. In modern local operas, wushu, a Chinese martial art closely related to movements of attack and defe...Chinese traditional opera often uses singing, acting, speaking and fighting as unique forms of artistic performance. In modern local operas, wushu, a Chinese martial art closely related to movements of attack and defense as disciplines has been incorporated in theatrical performances to portray different moods of characters through exaggerated movements.展开更多
SEVENTY years ago,in 1922,Shakespeare′s famous dramaThe Merchant of Venice wasadapted for Peking opera and per-formed by the noted Peking operaactor Xia Keshan.This was the firstforeign drama put on the Chinesestage ...SEVENTY years ago,in 1922,Shakespeare′s famous dramaThe Merchant of Venice wasadapted for Peking opera and per-formed by the noted Peking operaactor Xia Keshan.This was the firstforeign drama put on the Chinesestage in local opera formIn the eighteenth and nine-teenth centuries the Yuan DynastyOpera The Orphan of the Zhal展开更多
EVERY Peking Opera troupe has a leading actor and actress who portray the roles of martial males and females,the former being known as Wu Sheng and the latter as Dao Ma Dan or Woman Warriors.As the Dao Ma Dan of her P...EVERY Peking Opera troupe has a leading actor and actress who portray the roles of martial males and females,the former being known as Wu Sheng and the latter as Dao Ma Dan or Woman Warriors.As the Dao Ma Dan of her Peking Opera troupe.展开更多
At the beginning of 2024,Liu Yunzhi,President of China National Opera House,and nearly 50 artists from the Opera troupe,Choir and Symphony of the Opera House held"Happy Chinese New Year"concerts in Latvia,Uz...At the beginning of 2024,Liu Yunzhi,President of China National Opera House,and nearly 50 artists from the Opera troupe,Choir and Symphony of the Opera House held"Happy Chinese New Year"concerts in Latvia,Uzbekistan and Austria,in"the simplest and most friendly way to convey the sound of cultural exchanges",which added impetus to the cultural exchanges between China and the world.展开更多
Activity 1.Think about the following questions and write down your answers before reading the text.1.If you were to introduce Sichuan Opera facechanging to people from other countries,what key points would you emphasi...Activity 1.Think about the following questions and write down your answers before reading the text.1.If you were to introduce Sichuan Opera facechanging to people from other countries,what key points would you emphasize?2.If you had the opportunity to learn the art of facechanging in Sichuan Opera,what difficulties do you think you might encounter?展开更多
The premiere of the Chinese opera-style musical Snow Embracing the Blue Pass on 21 June was a spectacle of excitement and cultural richness.On stage at Beijing’s Tianqiao Theater,music players,Chinese opera performer...The premiere of the Chinese opera-style musical Snow Embracing the Blue Pass on 21 June was a spectacle of excitement and cultural richness.On stage at Beijing’s Tianqiao Theater,music players,Chinese opera performers,and drama actors performed in perfect harmony,showcasing their extraordinary talents in one show.展开更多
The purpose of the article is to explore the effects of Sichuan opera singing on music majors’vocal skills,focusing on three key aspects:pitch test,assessment of rhythmic perception,and emotional expression.Through a...The purpose of the article is to explore the effects of Sichuan opera singing on music majors’vocal skills,focusing on three key aspects:pitch test,assessment of rhythmic perception,and emotional expression.Through a quasi-experimental design,100 music majors were selected as research subjects and divided into an experimental group that received Sichuan opera singing instruction and a control group that received traditional vocal instruction.The results showed that compared with the control group,the experimental group receiving Sichuan opera singing teaching showed significant improvement in pitch mastery,rhythm perception,and emotional expression.展开更多
The culture of a region is deeply rooted in the people’s yearning for beauty and serves as a kind of historical essence.Changsha,my hometown,is a city with a long history and profound culture,one of which is undoubte...The culture of a region is deeply rooted in the people’s yearning for beauty and serves as a kind of historical essence.Changsha,my hometown,is a city with a long history and profound culture,one of which is undoubtedly Xiang opera.Xiang opera,also called Hunan opera,has a history of nearly 600 years.It has been divided into Changsha Xiang opera and Hengyang Xiang opera due to the different popular areas.展开更多
Traditional Chinese operas are an important part of China’s intangible cultural heritage,including well-known genres such as Peking Opera,Kunqu Opera and Cantonese Opera.Among them,Peking Opera has greatly outperform...Traditional Chinese operas are an important part of China’s intangible cultural heritage,including well-known genres such as Peking Opera,Kunqu Opera and Cantonese Opera.Among them,Peking Opera has greatly outperformed others in terms of recognition abroad.Some foreigners not only travel to China to watch it,but also to pick up some of the opera’s performance techniques.展开更多
An operatic work is a complex assemblage of different arts.Space-time in an operatic work is organized as a set of scores of all participating arts and is based on the conventions of their chronotopes.Each score is pa...An operatic work is a complex assemblage of different arts.Space-time in an operatic work is organized as a set of scores of all participating arts and is based on the conventions of their chronotopes.Each score is part of the system.At the same time,it is also relatively independent and flexible and can become a leading component for building the structure of the work.The chronotope of an operatic piece has several levels:(1)A dramaturgical source(a musical score with a libretto)that creates the spatial-time system of the work.This is a musical and poetical text whose chronotope transfers it into a stage text,placing it as the chronotope of the performance.(2)A spatial-time-stage director system.A stage work is a material object and is also the original idea of its creator,their spiritual perception.Being so,we discover the dual reality-a physical space-time of the work and a metaphysical space-time of its idea.A spatial-time system is the stage language of the work,the coordination between its external and internal art form.The external form is a set of expressive representations and the internal form is a logical structure,the space-time of the director’s perception.(3)Spatial-time-singer system.The singer integrates into this system partially in a way that is conditioned by the parameters of the chronotope in the spatial-time system.(4)A time-spatial system-an observer.Here a synergistic situation is created in which the show at the time of its ending(disintegration)moves into the space-time of the viewer and changes their inner world.In the ever-growing mosaic of contemporary art,in a rich variety of different currents,there is a need to look for universal values-the fundamental things that produce a sense of uniformity and completeness of the artistic work.A temporal analysis,that is,the analysis of the chronotopes of an operatic work can become a starting point for different approaches that investigate the contemporary processes taking place in an operatic work,and can also show new directions in the development of the operatic genre itself.展开更多
The Peking Opera Performance Dragon and Phoenix:Dialogue Between China and Thailand Opera was held at China Cultural Center in Bangkok,which built a platform of taking opera as a bridge and meeting friends through ope...The Peking Opera Performance Dragon and Phoenix:Dialogue Between China and Thailand Opera was held at China Cultural Center in Bangkok,which built a platform of taking opera as a bridge and meeting friends through opera,allowing more opera lovers to touch the charm of Chinese and Thai traditional opera and to have an in-depth understanding of the important role of cultural exchanges in China-Thailand relations.展开更多
Chinese theatre(戏曲,Xiqu),also known as Chinese operas,not only belongs to China,but also belongs to the world.Since the 18th century,it has been engaged in dialogue,exchange and interaction with the world drama in v...Chinese theatre(戏曲,Xiqu),also known as Chinese operas,not only belongs to China,but also belongs to the world.Since the 18th century,it has been engaged in dialogue,exchange and interaction with the world drama in various forms.With the pace of the overseas dissemination of Chinese theatre art,there will be more platforms for dialogue between Chinese opera and the world.and more communication methods.展开更多
A five-member women’s singing group is trying to revive flagging interest in Peking Opera by combining opera with pop elements.THEY come from different places and have different backgrounds, but they have one thing i...A five-member women’s singing group is trying to revive flagging interest in Peking Opera by combining opera with pop elements.THEY come from different places and have different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common-the number 416. That was the number of the dormitory room assigned to them when they enrolled at the Shanghai Theater Academy as young aspiring singers, and today, it’s also the name of their band-the 416 Girls Group, that has become a singing sensation.展开更多
基金funded by the National Social Science Fund of China’s project“Research on the Modernization Construction of Chinese Drama Theory in the 20th Century”(Approval Number:19BZW098)。
文摘From both historical and artistic points of view,Qinqiang Opera can be considered a significant genre outside the realms of Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera.The research on Qinqiang Opera has long been a focal point in the research on local operas with particular emphasis from a local perspective of the Yisu Art Troupe,a key and hot topic in the studies of Qinqiang Opera.Taking the Yisu Art Troupe as a case study to scrutinize and address the intricacies within the process of modernization of traditional Chinese opera proved to be beneficial.Since the 20th century,studies on the Yisu Art Troupe have evolved from scattered and impressionistic self-narratives into systematic and theoretical academic research.In the new century,scholars,such as Xin Xuefeng,Li Youjun,and Guo Hongjun,have been especially diligent with studies in this field.As Xin Xuefeng is relatively unknown due to his emphasis on traditional opera music,Li Youjun and Guo Hongjun have gradually emerged as important contemporary scholars in the study of the Yisu Art Troupe.Guo and Li not only further theorize the study of the Yisu Art Troupe but also conduct in-depth and meticulous studies on the nature of the Yisu Art Troupe,the establishment of the director-centered mode in Qinqiang Opera,the social function,and the playwriting of the Yisu Art Troupe by examining and reflecting it within the broader context of the modernization of traditional Chinese opera in the 20th century.
文摘The traditional musical instrument of minorities converges the evolution of ethnic group culture and history,and ethnic musical instruments are a core component of minority culture.The traditional instruments of Guangxi minorities are rich and varied,and an all-round cultural inheritance and protection mechanism should be used for ethnic musical instruments,so that the performance form of classical musical instruments of minorities can be more widely understood and mastered.Therefore,in this paper,we discuss the specific practice idea of the inheritance and development of classical musical instruments of Guangxi minorities,and facilitate the innovation of development path of ethnic musical instruments by taking the inheritance form of integrating musical instruments with operas.
文摘Chinese traditional opera often uses singing, acting, speaking and fighting as unique forms of artistic performance. In modern local operas, wushu, a Chinese martial art closely related to movements of attack and defense as disciplines has been incorporated in theatrical performances to portray different moods of characters through exaggerated movements.
文摘SEVENTY years ago,in 1922,Shakespeare′s famous dramaThe Merchant of Venice wasadapted for Peking opera and per-formed by the noted Peking operaactor Xia Keshan.This was the firstforeign drama put on the Chinesestage in local opera formIn the eighteenth and nine-teenth centuries the Yuan DynastyOpera The Orphan of the Zhal
文摘EVERY Peking Opera troupe has a leading actor and actress who portray the roles of martial males and females,the former being known as Wu Sheng and the latter as Dao Ma Dan or Woman Warriors.As the Dao Ma Dan of her Peking Opera troupe.
文摘At the beginning of 2024,Liu Yunzhi,President of China National Opera House,and nearly 50 artists from the Opera troupe,Choir and Symphony of the Opera House held"Happy Chinese New Year"concerts in Latvia,Uzbekistan and Austria,in"the simplest and most friendly way to convey the sound of cultural exchanges",which added impetus to the cultural exchanges between China and the world.
文摘Activity 1.Think about the following questions and write down your answers before reading the text.1.If you were to introduce Sichuan Opera facechanging to people from other countries,what key points would you emphasize?2.If you had the opportunity to learn the art of facechanging in Sichuan Opera,what difficulties do you think you might encounter?
文摘The premiere of the Chinese opera-style musical Snow Embracing the Blue Pass on 21 June was a spectacle of excitement and cultural richness.On stage at Beijing’s Tianqiao Theater,music players,Chinese opera performers,and drama actors performed in perfect harmony,showcasing their extraordinary talents in one show.
文摘The purpose of the article is to explore the effects of Sichuan opera singing on music majors’vocal skills,focusing on three key aspects:pitch test,assessment of rhythmic perception,and emotional expression.Through a quasi-experimental design,100 music majors were selected as research subjects and divided into an experimental group that received Sichuan opera singing instruction and a control group that received traditional vocal instruction.The results showed that compared with the control group,the experimental group receiving Sichuan opera singing teaching showed significant improvement in pitch mastery,rhythm perception,and emotional expression.
文摘The culture of a region is deeply rooted in the people’s yearning for beauty and serves as a kind of historical essence.Changsha,my hometown,is a city with a long history and profound culture,one of which is undoubtedly Xiang opera.Xiang opera,also called Hunan opera,has a history of nearly 600 years.It has been divided into Changsha Xiang opera and Hengyang Xiang opera due to the different popular areas.
文摘Traditional Chinese operas are an important part of China’s intangible cultural heritage,including well-known genres such as Peking Opera,Kunqu Opera and Cantonese Opera.Among them,Peking Opera has greatly outperformed others in terms of recognition abroad.Some foreigners not only travel to China to watch it,but also to pick up some of the opera’s performance techniques.
文摘An operatic work is a complex assemblage of different arts.Space-time in an operatic work is organized as a set of scores of all participating arts and is based on the conventions of their chronotopes.Each score is part of the system.At the same time,it is also relatively independent and flexible and can become a leading component for building the structure of the work.The chronotope of an operatic piece has several levels:(1)A dramaturgical source(a musical score with a libretto)that creates the spatial-time system of the work.This is a musical and poetical text whose chronotope transfers it into a stage text,placing it as the chronotope of the performance.(2)A spatial-time-stage director system.A stage work is a material object and is also the original idea of its creator,their spiritual perception.Being so,we discover the dual reality-a physical space-time of the work and a metaphysical space-time of its idea.A spatial-time system is the stage language of the work,the coordination between its external and internal art form.The external form is a set of expressive representations and the internal form is a logical structure,the space-time of the director’s perception.(3)Spatial-time-singer system.The singer integrates into this system partially in a way that is conditioned by the parameters of the chronotope in the spatial-time system.(4)A time-spatial system-an observer.Here a synergistic situation is created in which the show at the time of its ending(disintegration)moves into the space-time of the viewer and changes their inner world.In the ever-growing mosaic of contemporary art,in a rich variety of different currents,there is a need to look for universal values-the fundamental things that produce a sense of uniformity and completeness of the artistic work.A temporal analysis,that is,the analysis of the chronotopes of an operatic work can become a starting point for different approaches that investigate the contemporary processes taking place in an operatic work,and can also show new directions in the development of the operatic genre itself.
文摘The Peking Opera Performance Dragon and Phoenix:Dialogue Between China and Thailand Opera was held at China Cultural Center in Bangkok,which built a platform of taking opera as a bridge and meeting friends through opera,allowing more opera lovers to touch the charm of Chinese and Thai traditional opera and to have an in-depth understanding of the important role of cultural exchanges in China-Thailand relations.
文摘Chinese theatre(戏曲,Xiqu),also known as Chinese operas,not only belongs to China,but also belongs to the world.Since the 18th century,it has been engaged in dialogue,exchange and interaction with the world drama in various forms.With the pace of the overseas dissemination of Chinese theatre art,there will be more platforms for dialogue between Chinese opera and the world.and more communication methods.
文摘A five-member women’s singing group is trying to revive flagging interest in Peking Opera by combining opera with pop elements.THEY come from different places and have different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common-the number 416. That was the number of the dormitory room assigned to them when they enrolled at the Shanghai Theater Academy as young aspiring singers, and today, it’s also the name of their band-the 416 Girls Group, that has become a singing sensation.
