Wu Bibo
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of ten Wu Bibo entered the Kaifeng Heping Theatre, where she trained under the veteran artist Zhao Qinghe. In 1949 she became a disciple of Chen Suzhen, the queen of Yuju, and gradually mastered the Chen school's artistic hallmarks of allure, beauty, sweetness and truthfulness. She created and adapted many classic works and continued to train second-generation successors of the Chen school such as Yang Chunhua, so that the tradition was well carried on.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in 1933 in Kaifeng, Henan. Her acting is delicate, her appearance and bearing handsome, her singing plain and unaffected and her enunciation clear, with an ingenious emotional expressiveness; she is acclaimed as a new voice of Xiangfu. Her representative works include Mu Guiying, Da Jin Zhi (Striking the Golden Branch) and Tang Zhixian Shen Gao Ming (Magistrate Tang Reviews the Imperial Edict).
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Yuju (Henan Opera), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, and a first-grade actor.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Yuju (Henan Opera) Ⅳ-23
- Yuju (Henan Opera) Ⅳ-23
- Yuju (Henan Opera) Ⅳ-23
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