Wang Yuyou
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1971 he joined the Lixian Jinghe Opera Troupe, working as a jinghu player and music designer; he studied under Xu Anhe, a favoured disciple of the Jinghe opera music authority Huang Jisan, and is a second-generation inheritor of Jinghe Opera.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in February 1952 in Li County, Hunan Province. He is a National Third-Class Composer. After joining the troupe he made up for gaps in the performance technique of Jinghe opera and improved its traditional vocal styles, and later devoted himself to composing opera music. He is devoted to transmitting Jinghe Opera and has taken more than twenty disciples.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Jinghe Opera, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has composed the music for the large-scale newly compiled historical operas Fa Chang Bai Xiang (Appointing the Prime Minister at the Execution Ground), Zheng Gong En Yuan (Love and Feud in the Zheng Palace) and Furen Ling (The Lady's Command), the large-scale modern operas Fengyu Zimei Xing (Sisters in the Storm) and Mama, Erzi, Xiao Qiche (Mother, Son and a Small Car), and the short Jinghe operas Xinling de Moshu (Magic of the Soul) and Yan Hui Gui (The Returning Wild Goose); Xinling de Moshu won first prize at the Hunan Provincial Art Festival, and in 2014 Yan Hui Gui won the Top Ten Short Operas Award in the video collection and broadcast campaign Short Operas Celebrate the New Year organised by the National Public Culture Development Centre of the Ministry of Culture.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Jinghe Opera Ⅳ-35
- Jinghe Opera Ⅳ-35
Profile
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