Wang Xiulan
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1954 she entered the Daxian Opera Troupe as a residential student, studying successively under the Daxian opera notables Hao Fuyun, Dong Baojin and Wu Qingyue, and training in both the sheng (male) and dan (female) role types. Three days into her training she was already on stage in supporting roles, and the following year she became the troupe's leading dan performer while also taking xiaosheng (young male) roles.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, of Han ethnicity, born in March 1941 in Heze, Shandong Province. In 1972 she was transferred to the Shandong Liuzi Opera Troupe. In 1975 she moved to the Heze Theatre, where she served as deputy manager. On stage she created nearly a hundred characters of widely differing temperaments. Her representative works include such traditional plays as Liang Jia Shan (Two Mountains), Huo Long Zhen (The Fire-Dragon Formation), Shen Gao Ming (Trying the Imperial Edict) and Fan Wu Guan (Breaking Through Five Passes), as well as modern operas such as Jiang Jie (Sister Jiang) and Hong Se Niang Zi Jun (The Red Detachment of Women); her influence extended across Shandong, Hebei, Henan and other provinces. She took a number of disciples, and all three leading dan performers of the Heze Prefecture Daxian Opera Troupe came from her tutelage.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Daxian Opera, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Daxian Opera Ⅳ-44
- Daxian Opera Ⅳ-44
- Daxian Opera Ⅳ-44
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