What is the position of Chinese opera in the international theater stage?

Chinese opera has long had an irreplaceable position in popularizing traditional ethics and morals, and its influence in the world is unique. The position and influence it has achieved are due to its long-standing function of dissemination and its role in popularizing traditional ethics and morals.

Chinese opera is ranked as one of the world's three major ancient dramas together with ancient Greek tragic comedy and Indian Sanskrit drama; Chinese drama is one of the world's three major theatrical performance systems together with Stanislavsky's theatrical performance system of Soviet Russia and Brecht's performance system of Germany; and is embodied in the richness, colorfulness and profundity of Chinese opera.

European theater is a gradual differentiation of various artistic factors, the road to independence, while the development of Chinese opera, the dramatic component is gradually increasing, not only the integration of song, dance, speech, acting and other major artistic factors, but also in the development of the way forward, at any time to the then emerging technologies absorbed and integrated into the synthesis of a part of the theater is also known as the world's "seventh art". Theater has been called the "seventh art" of the world.

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With the change of the times, opera music is facing two problems

1, inherit and carry forward the traditions of national opera music, remove the rough and extract the essentials, enrich and improve, so that it puts on a new luster; one is how to express the new life, portraying new characters. Over the past forty years in the opera music workers, actors, musicians *** with the efforts of the singing, singing, accompaniment, orchestra and other aspects of the reform and exploration, and achieved a lot of results.

The reform of opera music is mainly reflected in the processing of traditional repertoire and the creation of new repertoire (including two types of repertoire: historical story themes and real-life themes) by summarizing the historical experience and adopting the inherent compositional methods and means.

2. Borrowing, absorbing and adopting the compositional method of western music. Explore forward in the creative practice.