Chu Opera "dabieshan Singing And Singing To Explore

With the characteristic of extensive theme and lively acting, Chu opera, rich in native flavor, is easy to understand and greatly popular with people. Like other operas, many practical problem such as audience drain, shortage of actors, lack of high quality plays, etc. emerged in the development of Chu opera.For many years, numerous Chu opera artists have devoted themselves to the reformation of this excellent local opera's to follow the pace of new culture and the transition of people's aesthetic appreciation. The opera People from Dabieshan Mountain, performed in Local Drama Art Theater of Hubei province, could be taken as a successful example of the most recent endeavor in this reformation. Without the traditional weeping tone, the opera People from Dabieshan Mountain, whose lines are easy to understand, has a fresh and sprightly rhythm. Folk song melody is now being taken as the major source of its production; Szechwan dialect combined with traditional Chu tone, the flavor of this opera is now much more distinctive.