Zhou Dongliang
Lineage & School of Heritage
He studied under the celebrated Xiju opera masters Zhou Linhua and Wang Xiaokun, inheriting the vocal characteristics and performance styles of the two major schools, the Wang (Hanqing) school and the Binbin style.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in January 1969 in Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province. With a solid foundation, he is accomplished in both civil and martial roles and has a broad range. His timbre is sweet, his phrasing free and his high register stirring, forming the Zhou school artistic style, which is excellent in song, speech, movement and combat alike. He can perform close to one hundred plays, among them such representative works as The Pearl Tower, The Jade Dragonfly, The Top Scholar on Night Watch, The Emperor of the Grass Roots, The Two-Person Mill and Eating Noodles, which have remained perennially popular. His performing activities have taken him throughout the country, and many of his disciples have become pillars of their companies or national first-class actors.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Xiju Opera, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. The Pearl Tower was selected for the China Drama Plum Blossom Award digital film project. He is a recipient of the China Drama Plum Blossom Award, the Wenhua Performance Award, the Best Actor Award of the Shanghai Magnolia Theatre Performing Arts Awards and the Outstanding Actor Award of the China Cao Yu Theatre Festival.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Xiju Opera Ⅳ-103
- Xiju Opera Ⅳ-103
- Xiju Opera Ⅳ-103
Profile
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