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Status of Kunqu Opera in China's Operas

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Kunqu Opera boasts a history of 600 years, which is over four hundred years earlier than the birth of Beijing Opera. Its artistic achievements have influenced almost all kinds of operas in China, and for this reason Kunqu Opera is revered in China as "the ancestor of all operas". In view of its important position in China's operas, Kunqu Opera was proclaimed in Paris to be included on the list of the first batch of "Human Beings' Verbal and Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Work".

Kunqu Opera

Kunqu Opera is a sort of stage art. Its name suggests that it originates in Kunshan of Jiangsu Province. Originally called Kunshan Accent or abbreviated as Kun Accent, it has been called Kunqu Opera since the Qing Dynasty. It is also called Kun Opera nowadays.

Representative Works of Kunqu Opera

Representative Works of Kunqu Opera

Fifteen Strings of Bronze Coin Cash is a representative detective story in the repertoire of Kunqu Opera, which narrates how an official with a high sense of responsibility comes upon a queer case...
Famous Kunqu Actor Yu Zhenfei

Famous Kunqu Actor Yu Zhenfei

Born in the late years of the Qing Dynasty, Yu Zhenfei was an outstanding artist of Kunqu Opera. Fairly accomplished in classic literature, he blended perfectly in his performance the quintessence...
Kunqu Opera on the Screen

Kunqu Opera on the Screen

Taiwan film director Yang Fan applied Kunqu Opera to the film Peony Pavilion, whose leading actress Rie Miyazawa won the best leading actress for this film at the Moscow Film Festival.