Yao Daocheng
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1960 he entered the actor training class of the Jinjiang County Gaojia Opera Troupe, studying under Xiao Diji, a renowned master of the sheng role types. He acquired a thorough command of the traditional performance conventions of the Gaojia sheng role and was versatile, excelling equally at drum direction, flute playing and stringed instruments.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in November 1945 in Jinjiang County, Fujian Province. Accomplished in both civil and martial roles and strongest in martial ones, he performed with a heroic gravity and a spirited, resonant power, and was regarded as the foremost laosheng of Gaojia opera.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Gaojia Opera, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Since 1990 he has directed and performed in his own troupe a large repertoire of traditional plays and the staging conventions of the mubiao (scenario) plays, trained and instructed numerous outstanding young actors, and directed close to a hundred traditional plays for private professional troupes. He has received an outstanding actor award at the Fujian Provincial Drama Festival, the best teacher award at the Fujian Provincial Literary and Artistic New Talents Competition and an outstanding director award at the first Fujian Provincial Folk Drama Competition, among others.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Gaojia Opera Ⅳ-48
- Gaojia Opera Ⅳ-48
- Gaojia Opera Ⅳ-48
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