Liu Chenyu
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He was born in 1930 into the Han ethnic group in Guichi, Anhui. Influenced from childhood by the elders of his clan, Liu Chenyu took part in religious Nuo ceremonies. He went on stage at the age of seventeen playing roles in Nuo opera, became skilled at leading the drum, and served as the annual head, the officiating steward, of his clan's Nuo activities; he has a firm command of the arias and acting technique of every Nuo play transmitted in his clan.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Nuo Opera (Chizhou Nuo Opera), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In the mid-1980s, in order to restore Nuo opera performance after an interruption of nearly thirty years, he wrote out from memory the Nuo play scripts and the shouted passage texts of the Nuo dances performed by his clan. He has since trained more than ten successors in Nuo opera, and in 2005 he took part in the China Jiangxi International Nuo Culture and Art Week, where he won a gold award and an excellence award for the street procession performance.
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