Wu Zhenxun
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of eleven he entered an opera troupe and studied under the veteran artists Chen Tianliang, Chen Jinbiao and others, specializing in guimen dan and qingyi roles; in 1963 he became a disciple of Huang Wendi, the leading master of Puxian opera, and switched to xiaosheng roles, and one year later he was admitted to the directing department of the Shanghai Theatre Academy for a one-year course.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in August 1937, a native of Putian, Fujian Province. With a solid foundation in role performance, when directing he both interprets the script and its characters and gives performance demonstrations, devoting attention to the meticulous carving of character and to pictorial beauty, and in this way formed a style of his own.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Puxian Opera, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has won the directing award of the National Drama Festival and the Outstanding Directing Award of the Fujian Provincial Drama Festival. As early as 1965 he strove to train successors for Puxian opera; after retirement he raised funds himself to establish a troupe and trained a large number of Puxian opera performers, and the troupe was awarded the title of one of the ten best folk professional troupes of Fujian Province.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Puxian Opera Ⅳ-3
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