What are the characteristics of Cantonese opera?

The characteristics of Cantonese opera are: the banqiang of Bangzi and Huanger is the main body, and the style of Qupai is the axis. At the same time, Guangdong folk accents such as Xue Nan, Mu Xue, Dragon Meat and Banyan Tree were retained, and the new repertoire was accompanied by a large symphony.

The basic performances of traditional Cantonese opera, such as "pulling mountains" and "shaking hands", all have their own characteristics, retaining Gu Zhuo's rich artistic style. In the long-term stage art practice, experienced artists have created performance program combinations such as "Big Rack", "Eighteen Arhats Rack", "Five Watch Racks", "Gongbian Big Knurling" and "Seven Hammerheads", which have formed the distinctive features of Cantonese opera through continuous screening, accumulation and enrichment.

With the increasing artistic exchanges between Cantonese opera and Beijing opera, Cantonese opera has absorbed, borrowed and learned other art forms for its own use, forming a complex, colorful and comprehensive program feature.

Cantonese Opera Singing Cantonese Opera is a multi-part opera. Its vocal structure is mainly a board cavity with Qupai style. Its vocal cavity includes Bangzi, Huang Er, Gaoqiang, Kunqiang, professional cavity, ballads, zaju and so on. Among them, Bangzi and Huanger are the basic vocal cavity, commonly known as "Banghuang".

Big cavity, originally used in high cavity drama, is divided into "big cavity first board", "big cavity middle board" and "big cavity four doors" It retains the bright style and characteristics of singing by one person, singing with others, beating gongs and drums intermittently, and not playing stringed instruments.

Kunqu Opera and Cantonese Opera are called "Kunqu School". Many early brands of Kunqu Opera were directly absorbed from Kunqu Opera. Most of these brands and Wen Qu come from the original Kunqu Opera. Most of the words of Kun school are long and short sentences, but there are also seven sentences and cross sentences, but the number is not much. In Cantonese opera, there are nearly 100 brands in Gao Kun, all of which have certain lyrics and accompaniment procedures, but they have been used separately from the original repertoire.