The main features of Anhui Huangmei Opera

The main features of Anhui Huangmei Opera are as follows:

1, singing: Huangmei Opera's singing is a plate change, there are three major cavity system: flower, color, and the main tune.

2, line: Huangmei Opera character line system is in the second small play, three small play on the basis of the development. After the staging of the whole opera, the role of the line is gradually developed into the Dan, Zhengsheng, Xiaodan, Xiaosheng, clowns, the old Dan, Milk Sheng, Huafang line.

3, costumes: Huangmei Opera costumes are a continuation of the traditional costumes of the Han Chinese people, the Tang, Song and Ming Dynasties.

The artistic characteristics of Huangmei Opera are not only in the singing, lines and costumes, but also in the makeup and musical instruments.

Huangmei Opera makeup is heavy on the eyebrows and eyes, and the costumes are concerned about coloring and charm. At the beginning of Huangmei Opera, there were only percussion instruments, the so-called "three strikes and seven songs", but in the later stages of development, other instruments were added.

Huangmei Opera, formerly known as Huangmei Tune and Caicha Opera, originated in Huangmei, Hubei Province, and developed in Anqing, Anhui Province. Huangmei Opera is a kind of theater that was developed first from the countryside and then to the city by mountain songs, rice-planting songs, tea songs, tea-picking lanterns, and flower-drum tunes, and gradually formed and developed. It absorbed the factors of many types of theater and gradually formed its own artistic characteristics.

Huangmei Opera has a simple and fluent singing style, and is characterized by a bright and lyrical style with rich expressive power. The representative repertoire of Huangmei Opera includes "The Match of Heavenly Fairies", "The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden", "The Story of Sophora", "Female Emperor's Son-in-law", and so on.