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Peng Juan

02-0619Lantern OperaTraditional OperaNanchong, SichuanBatch 2 (2008)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

After leaving senior high school without graduating in 1950, Peng Juan worked for many years in the Nanchong Municipal Sichuan Opera Troupe as an instrumentalist, composer and orchestra conductor. From the 1960s he collected a large amount of material on the music of northern Sichuan lantern opera, studied it over many years, and composed music for more than thirty northern Sichuan lantern opera pieces. His compositions for northern Sichuan lantern opera have a distinctive northern Sichuan flavour, original and fresh, with strongly melodic vocal writing. His representative works include Nao Huang Hui (The Temple Fair Revels).

Honors & Recognition

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1933 in Nanchong, Sichuan, and deceased in 2008. He was a second-batch national representative bearer of lantern opera (northern Sichuan lantern opera), a national intangible cultural heritage project, and a National First-Grade Composer.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Peng Juan · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Lantern Opera
Item code
Ⅳ-77
Category
Traditional Opera
Region
Nanchong, Sichuan
Born
1933.03.06
Batch
Batch 2 (2008)

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