Cantonese opera classics include:

1. "The Flower of the Emperor"

2. "The Story of the Purple Hairpin"

3. Wrong Dreams in the West Tower"

4. "White Swallows Welcome the Spring"

5. "A Frightening Dream in the Peony Pavilion"

6. "Three Smiling Marriage"

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7. "Empress Li"

8. "Princess Zhaojun"

9. "Thundering Golden Drums and Sound of Jia"

10 , "Meng Duanxiang has been sold for forty years"

11. "The Biography of Liu Yi"

12. "The Tower Meeting"

13. "The Mysterious Girl of the Nine Heavens" 》

14. "Shanbo's Death"

15. "Autumn Regrets on a Passenger's Journey"

16. "Three Looks at the Royal Sister"

18. "Zhaojun Goes Out of the Wall"

19. "The Story of Butterfly Shadow and Red Pear"

20. "Blood Splattered" Wusha"

The characteristics of Cantonese opera:

The lyrics of Cantonese opera are easy to understand. Musically, the "banghuang" singing style is interspersed with folk songs and minor tunes, and the singing method is changed from "false voice" to "false voice". "Ping Lao" (real voice), and after repeated practice, all singing was performed in Guangzhou dialect.

The "mountain coaster" that operates in rural areas retains the rough and rustic characteristics of its early days. Many actors have unique tricks such as one-legged, somersaults, hair flips, and beards.

The martial arts are based on "Southern martial arts", including strong neck targets, handholds, Shaolin boxing, and difficult chair skills and high platform skills. After the characters appear on the stage, the men often "jump a little" and the women often "bend their waists" in their performances, which is also quite rare.

The stage art style is almost freehand. The setting is simple, and the prescribed situations in the play are mainly displayed through virtual performance programs. When the programs cannot be expressed, signs are used to write "riverside", "mountain" and other text descriptions.

The repertoire of Cantonese opera is mostly shengdan opera, with heavy singing and light acting. There are more literary operas than martial arts. The martial arts are based on "southern martial arts", including powerful targets, hand bridges, Shaolin boxing and difficult ones. Chair Kung Fu and High Platform Kung Fu.

The performance skills of Cantonese opera actors are divided into four basic categories: singing, acting, chanting and fighting. Singing refers to singing skills, and there are different singing methods for different roles, including flat throat and sub-throat.

Flat throat is the tone used in normal speaking. Generally, male characters, Xiaosheng, use flat throat to perform. The sub-throat is an octave higher than the flat-throat, and often uses falsetto to play female roles.

The "Provincial and Hong Kong Taipan" performances in cities have absorbed part of the artistic nutrition of drama, opera and movies, and have made considerable improvements in reflecting contemporary life and making the performances more life-like.

The repertoire is mostly shengdan opera, with emphasis on singing and light acting, and more literary operas than martial arts operas. However, some new performance routines are also extracted and created from life, and performance techniques are borrowed and absorbed from movies and dramas. , forming a free and flexible, popular and delicate performance style that emphasizes realism.

The male's singing is relatively smooth, low, and sometimes slightly hoarse; the female's singing is very delicate and mellow.

The performance art of Cantonese opera maintains the rough and simple characteristics of the early "Mountain Coaster". Many famous actors have unique tricks such as one-leg, somersault, zipline, step on, eye movement, hair flip, beard and so on.

Martial arts are based on "Southern martial arts", including powerful target, hand bridge, Shaolin boxing, and difficult chair skills and high platform skills. Famous actors participated in the Taiping Rebellion in the early days, and later founded the "Dacheng Kingdom" and claimed to be King Pingjing. Li Wenmao, an old man with a handsome face, and Kwong Xinhua, a veteran who founded the Cantonese opera guild "Bahe Guild Hall", etc.