Classic repertoire of Sichuan opera

The most famous works of Sichuan Opera are Playboy, Legend of the White Snake, Liu Yin, Yu He Bridge, Hongmei Family, Wang Xifeng, Husband and Wife Bridge, Jiang Jie, Tian Jie, Zhuang Zhou, Dream of Red Mansions, Hongmei Ji and so on.

Sichuan Opera, commonly known as Sichuan Opera, is mainly popular in the Han areas of Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces in southwest China. It is a traditional opera that combines five vocal arts, namely, Gao Qiang, Kunqu Opera, Huqin (that is, Pihuang), Tanxi (that is, Bangzi) and Sichuan Folk Lantern Opera. Sichuan Opera is one of the traditional operas of Han nationality, which is popular in eastern and central Sichuan, Chongqing and parts of Guizhou and Yunnan. The facial makeup of Sichuan Opera is an important part of the performing arts of Sichuan Opera, and it is an artistic treasure created and inherited by Sichuan Opera artists in past dynasties.

Singing characteristics

Sichuan Opera consists of five kinds of tunes: Kunqu Opera, Gaoqiang Opera, Huqin Opera, Tanxi Opera and Dengdiao. Among them, except for the local lights, all the lights in other places are imported. These five kinds of vocal music and the music forms such as gongs and drums, suona music cards, piano and flute music that accompany these five kinds of vocal music.

Sichuan opera music is eclectic. It absorbed the nutrition of the big cavity system of Chinese opera, merged with Sichuan local language, phonology and music, and evolved into local opera music with diverse forms, rich tunes, rigorous structure and different styles.