Yue Opera is one of the main operas in south china. It is
popular in Guangdong, Guangxi and some places in Hong Kong, Marcao and
Southeast Asia where the overseas Chinese are gathering. Cantonese is
being used in the performers' singings and dialogues. The basic tune
of Cantonese opera is Banghuang, retaining the Kun, Ge and Guang tunes
as well as taking the advantages of Guangdong folk songs and the
current tunes. Except using the folk music instruments, such as the
erhu, gaohu, sanxian and yueqin as the accompany instruments, some
middle and low pitched western instruments are also being creatively
used, such as violin, saxophone. As absorbing the absorbing the
excellence of talking opera, opera and film in the performance, stage
arts and lamp decorations, Cantonese opera is getting its own
characteristics. There are ten main characters in this opera at first,
while now it has been decreased to some unique ones, for example
wenwusheng, xiaosheng, zhengyinhuadan, erbanghuadan, chousheng and
wusheng.
There are about five or six thousand traditional programs.
The famous performers: mashizeng, hongxiannv, luopinchao and baijurong
etc.
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