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Famous Sichuan Opera Artists

We can still enjoy the fascinating Sichuan Opera today because many Sichuan Opera performers and enthusiasts have made significant contributions to its inheritance and development. The following renowned Sichuan Opera artists have won the love of the audience with their exquisite acting skills and profound artistic attainments, and they have also made great contributions to the inheritance and development of Sichuan Opera.

Famous Sichuan Opera Artists

Xiao Ting | 晓艇 xiǎo tǐng | 曉艇 Hiu Ting

Xiao Ting, whose original name is Wen Huazhang, is a representative inheritor of the Sichuan Opera project of the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage in China, a first-class actor, and a winner of the first Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Drama. As a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project, he focuses on activities related to the inheritance of Sichuan Opera. His exquisite performances have attracted more and more people to enjoy Sichuan Opera in theaters, making many contributions to the development of Sichuan Opera.

Wang Daozheng | 王道正 wáng dào zhèng | 王道正 Wong Dou Ching

A famous Sichuan Opera performing artist, a first-class actor of China, and an inheritor of the face-changing art. His "face-changing" is a unique and distinctive skill in Chinese opera. Mr. Wang Daozheng is highly representative in "face-changing" performances. He was the first to reform and innovate the face-changing art, forming the current face-changing performance model, which is praised as "a unique skill in the world" and known as the "King of Face-changing". He can change facial masks of green, yellow, red, blue, brown, black, white, gold, etc. in an instant, leaving the audience dazzled and full of admiration. With his extremely proficient special skills, he has won high praise from audiences at home and abroad. He is persistent and obsessed with art and constantly innovates. He has won the respect and love of everyone with his excellent skills and fine professional ethics.

Wei Ruiqun | 韦瑞群 wéi ruì qún | 韋瑞群 Wai Sui Kwan

Wei Ruiqun is currently the chairman of the Hong Kong Wei Ruiqun International Art Institution. Wei Ruiqun is an art master who has pushed the face-changing art of China to its peak in recent years. He once set a world record of changing 38 facial masks in one breath, and was called a "national-treasure-level face-changing art master" by the Hong Kong media. Now he can change 75 facial masks.

Master Wei Ruiqun was the first to introduce the face-changing skill to Hong Kong. He not only brought this precious skill from Sichuan to Hong Kong, but also created his own school based on Sichuan Opera, making this skill more rich and more magical.

Shen Tiemei | 沈铁梅 shěn tiě méi | 沈鐵梅 Sham Tit Mui

Shen Tiemei has created two "firsts" in the history of Sichuan Opera: the first to hold a solo concert by a Sichuan Opera actor, and the first to perform Sichuan Opera accompanied by a symphony orchestra, pioneering the use of Western symphony to accompany traditional Sichuan Opera plays. While delving into the national vocalization method, she integrated the bel canto singing method into Sichuan Opera performances and is recognized as "the first person in the history of Sichuan Opera to have such a unique vocal cavity", and the first to bring traditional Sichuan Opera art into the European music palace. She has visited countries such as Italy, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Australia, Singapore, and South Korea, and promoted Sichuan Opera to the world through cultural communications.

By Mia Li
Web Editor

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