Chen Shaoyun

02-0514Peking OperaTraditional OperaShanghaiBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Chen Shaoyun came from a family of theatre artists. He began studying the art at nine and made his stage debut at ten. He studied under Fang Hangsheng and others, and later learned plays from Zhao Lintong, a celebrated actor of the Qi school, and Cao Shijia, an actor of the Yang school, inheriting the Qi school's richly coloured, impassioned performing style. He subsequently became a disciple of the renowned director A Jia.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1948 in Hunan. His performance is inwardly full and brimming with passion, his outward movement free and unconstrained; his voice is deep, broad and sweet, his diction and melodic phrasing strongly marked, and his sustained high register plain, unadorned and forthright in the archaic manner. His representative works include The Civet Cat Exchanged for the Crown Prince, The Dongpo Banquet, Prime Minister Liu Luoguo and Xiao He's Success and Failure.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Peking Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a first-grade actor, a celebrated laosheng of the Qi school, and a winner of the Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Theatre and of the Ministry of Culture's Wenhua Performance Award.

References & Archival Sources

Chen Shaoyun · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Peking Opera
Item code: Ⅳ-28
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Shanghai
Born: 1948.09
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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