He Shuanglin
Lineage & School of Heritage
He learned the craft from childhood under his father, He Jiaotian; at twelve he entered the training school of the Shanghai Huai Opera Troupe and later joined the troupe itself, first specialising in wawasheng (child roles) and subsequently in laosheng (older male roles).
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in June 1945, a native of Jianyang County (present-day Jianhu County), Jiangsu Province. A National First-Class Performer. In 1980 he entered the advanced training class in opera directing at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. He has a profound grounding in Huai opera and a wide theatrical range; in singing he fully inherited the He school of male vocal art created by his father, with clear diction, pure tone, a resonant voice and deep breath support, conveying a fluent, vigorous and expansive artistic beauty, and he is skilled in the use of vibrato and in alternating natural and falsetto voice to create strong contrasts of timbre. His representative works include Hong Deng Ji (The Red Lantern), Jiao Yulu, Jian Mei Zha (Gathering Coal Slag), Hai Gang (The Seaport), Qin Xianglian and Jin Long yu Fuyou (The Golden Dragon and the Mayfly).
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Huaiju Opera, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He received the Outstanding Performance Award at the National Exchange Performances of Local Opera.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Huaiju Opera Ⅳ-102
- Huaiju Opera Ⅳ-102
- Huaiju Opera Ⅳ-102
- Huaiju Opera Ⅳ-102
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