Gao Cuiying
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
She is a woman of the Han ethnic group, born in March 1943 in Fenyang County, Shanxi Province. At the age of ten she was admitted to the Taiyuan Municipal Theatre School, where her first teachers were such renowned veteran artists as Wang Luchun, Li Fangru, Yu Shaolou, Niu Guiying and Liu Shunnian; she specialised in daomadan (female warrior) roles and later received instruction in many pieces from Ban Shichao, a famous Beijing Opera daomadan of Ningxia, Guan Sushuang, a famous Beijing Opera performer of Yunnan, and Shang Xiaoyun, among other celebrated artists. She has a handsome appearance in costume and a fine, slender voice, and can both dance and sing; her basic skills are solid, she is good at absorbing and making use of the strengths of other schools, and she constantly reforms and innovates so as to bring her art ever closer to perfection. She has performed more than two hundred pieces, among them such representative works as Fengtai Pass (Feng Tai Guan), The Gift of the Sword (Zeng Jian), Pointing the Marshal at the Three Passes (San Guan Dian Shuai) and The King of Qi Draws His Horse (Qi Wang La Ma), which have remained popular over many years.
Honors & Recognition
She is a national representative bearer of Jinju (Shanxi Opera), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Her performing activities have covered the whole province, and the dozens of actors she has trained have mostly become celebrated performers.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
- Jinju (Shanxi Opera) Ⅳ-18
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