Wei Yixin
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He is a man of the Han ethnic group, born in September 1937 in Chongqing. Taught orally and by example by his parents from childhood, he strictly carried on the performing techniques of the Wei school of Sichuan Opera. He first appeared on stage at the age of ten and has performed a great many Sichuan Opera plays of different types, injecting many vital artistic elements into the art of Sichuan Opera. In 1959 he became head of the Guiyang Sichuan Opera Troupe and performed more than a hundred pieces of the Wei school; such classic pieces as the civil plays A Reprimand in the Inn (Dian Fang Ze Zhi) and Exploring Love (Qing Tan) and the martial plays Zhou Yu Beats Huang Gai (Zhou Yu Da Huang Gai) and The King of Yue Returns Home (Yue Wang Hui Guo) brought the art of the Wei school to its fullest expression and displayed its style to perfection.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Chuanju (Sichuan Opera), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He long devoted himself to training talent; all the pieces he taught have been formally performed by his students, and he has trained a large number of well-known Sichuan Opera artists.
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