Cao Zhangling
Lineage & School of Heritage
Cao Zhangling joined the Xinyi Municipal Puppet Troupe in 1976 and moved to the Gaozhou Puppet Cantonese Opera Troupe in 1983, studying puppet performance and puppet accompaniment singing under Chen Yonghui and He Wenfu.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in 1960 in Gaozhou, Guangdong. She can perform the sheng, lao, jing and chou role types, and is especially skilled in huadan and madam roles. Her accompanying singing is clear and bright, expressive in both voice and feeling, and has won her deep popularity and acclaim among audiences. In more than thirty years of puppet performance she has mastered such puppet techniques as rolling the eyes, pouring wine, writing, opening and closing a fan, and martial combat, and she has also experimented with a style in which human performers and puppets share the stage. Her representative works include Liu Yi Delivers a Letter, Chang'e Flies to the Moon and Sun Wukong Thrice Borrows the Plantain Fan.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Puppetry (Gaozhou puppetry), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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