Original modern Huangmei Opera "Guxi Ballad"
Synopsis:
In the early 1940s, when the New Fourth Army was fighting along the Guxi River, Captain Li, a music instructor, sacrificed his life after entrusting his newborn baby Hongying to the Yang family.
The Yang family treats Hongying as their family, raising her with their own daughter, Yang Danxia, and teaching them to sing folk songs. In the 1950s, when an art troupe was recruiting, Yang's father's strange attitude made the sisters suspicious and misidentified their origins. When the elder sister, Hongying, learnt of the wishes of her two fathers, she understood the meaning of folk songs and made a choice between love and family. She lived beside the Guxi River and collected Guxi folk songs to pass them on to this day ......
Starring Introduction:
Wu Qiong: Famous Huangmei Opera Artist, National First-level Actress
She is an award-winning performer on today's opera stage, recognised as the heir to the famous Huangmei Opera performer Yan Fengying, and a pioneer in the grafting of Huangmei Opera with modern music. With her own musical talent and artistic practice, she has not only broadened the sound range of Huangmei Opera, but also developed its vocal art, and blended the essence of traditional art with the fresh elements of modern art to form her own unique artistic style. Her works are diversified with the vitality of the times, and have been widely noticed and loved. She was awarded the 22nd Magnolia Drama Performing Arts Award.
Representative works: "Hong Luo Pa" ,"Marriage of the Fairy Princess", "Emperor's Female Son-in-Law", "Meng Jiangnv", "Much Ado About Nothing", "Sister Jiang", "Yan Fengying", "The Noblewoman Returns Home", "Drunkenness of Taibai", "Guxi Ballad". Publications: "I Write My Heart".
Photograph of Characters:
Wu Qiong
Famous Huangmei Opera Performing Artist
National First-level Actress
Yang Hongying in "Guxi Ballad"
Sun Xuelian
National First-level Actress
Yang Danxia in "Guxi Ballad"
Zhai Lingyun
National Second-level Actor
Qin Youwei in "Guxi Ballad"
Jiang Qing
National First-level Actor
Yang's Father in "Guxi Ballad"
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