What are the four basic skills of opera?

Singing, reciting, acting and fighting are the four artistic means in opera performance.

At the same time, they are also the four basic skills of opera performers. They are often called the "four skills".

Singing - refers to singing, which is one of the important means of characterization. Through the actor's infectious vocal art, it expresses the heart song of the playwright.

Reading - refers to the musical recitation, and "singing" with each other, complementary, is an important artistic means to express the thoughts and feelings of the characters.

Do - refers to the performance skills, especially the dancing physical movements, through the hands, eyes, body, method, step to show the different psychological state of the task.

Fighting - is the choreography of traditional martial arts, a highly artistic distillation of fighting scenes from life.

Expanded Information

It consists of a synthesis of literature, music, dance, fine arts, martial arts, acrobatics, and the performing arts, with some three hundred and sixty categories. It is characterized by the aggregation of many art forms by one standard, reflecting their respective personalities in *** with the same nature.

Chinese opera and Greek tragedy and comedy, Indian Sanskrit drama and known as the world's three major ancient theater culture, after a long period of development and evolution, and gradually formed a "Beijing opera, Yueju opera, Huangmei opera, opera, Yu opera," the five major types of opera as the core of the Chinese Opera Hundred Flowers Garden.

There are many different kinds of Chinese opera, and according to incomplete statistics, there are more than 360 kinds of Chinese opera in various ethnic areas, with tens of thousands of traditional repertoires.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Chinese Opera