Du Yinfang
Lineage & School of Heritage
Du Yinfang came from a family of opera performers and from childhood studied under his father Du Genghui. He specialises in the wen and wu xiaosheng (civil and martial young male) roles and also performs the erjing and sanlian (clown) roles, and he has mastered the vocal modes of every role type in both Wu'an Pingdiao and Wu'an Laozi. At the age of twelve he joined the Wu'an City Pingdiao-Laozi Opera Troupe, where he remained until his retirement.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1942 in Wu'an, Hebei. His voice is sonorous and his singing has a distinctive flavour; he can play every role type and character apart from the dan (female) roles, and in both stage movement and singing he has no peer, so that his influence among the public is wide. His representative works include Xiongguan Hongshao (The Red Sentry at the Pass), Mai Miaolang (Selling the Young Scholar), Lü Mengzheng Ganzhai (Lü Mengzheng at the Vegetarian Feast) and Diu Guan Ji (The Tale of the Lost Office).
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Wu'an Pingdiao-Laozi, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, and a national second-grade actor.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Wuanpingdiaolaozi Ⅳ-52
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