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Opera Type

THEMOST POPULARTYPE OF THECHINSEOPERA C

hinese opera, Greek tragedy and comedy, and Indian Sanskrit are also known as the world’s three ancient theater cultures. After a long period of development and evolution, five main types of operas including “Peking Opera, Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera, Ping Opera, and Henan Opera” have gradually formed.

Peking Opera

One of the biggest characteristics of Peking Opera is that it is more procedural, because different operas have different voices in the performance, and even the actions, costumes, and props in the performance are different. Everyone integrates with others on their own basis. There are various styles and singing voices.

Yue Opera

In its development, Yue Opera has absorbed the great achievements of Kunqu Opera, Drama, Shao Opera and other characteristic operas, and has experienced a historical evolution from male Yue Opera to female Yue Opera. Yue Opera is good at lyricism, mainly singing, with beautiful voice, real and moving performance, beautiful and elegant, and full of Jiangnan spirit; mostly based on the theme of “talents and beautiful ladies”, there are many artistic genres, and there are 13 recognized genres. many.

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