Huangmei Opera and Peking Opera, Yue Opera and Pingju Opera? Henan Opera, also known as "the five major operas in China", is also the main local opera in Anhui Province. Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hongkong and Taiwan Province provinces also have professional or amateur Huangmei Opera performance groups, which are widely welcomed.
Huangmei Opera is a kind of drama gradually formed and developed from folk songs, yangko, tea songs, tea-picking lanterns and Hua Gutiao, from rural areas to cities. It has absorbed the factors of Han Opera, Chu Opera, Gao Qiang, tea-picking opera, Beijing Opera and many other operas, and gradually formed its own artistic characteristics.
Huangmei opera is simple and fluent in singing, good at lively lyricism and rich in expressive force; The performance is simple and meticulous, and it is famous for its truthfulness and vividness. A song "The Match of Heaven and Fairy" has made Huangmei Opera popular all over the country and has a high reputation overseas.
Huangmei Opera artists have adapted a number of large and small traditional plays, such as The Fairy Couple, Xu's Woman, The Story of Rope, Zhao, Mother's Tears, Three Searches for the State House and so on.
He created the drama Cowherd and Weaver Girl, the historical drama Losing Punishment and Cutting, the drama Blooming in Spring, Early Spring and Bud Blooming in a small shop. Among them, Fairy Descent, Female Xu and Cowherd and Weaver Girl have been put on the screen one after another, which has had a great influence at home and abroad.
In recent years, like other traditional operas, the development of Huangmei Opera is also facing a severe test. In this context, Huangmei Opera people tried to carry out some reforms and innovations on the basis of inheriting the tradition.
Among them, the new Huangmei opera Huizhou Woman is the forerunner and representative. The play was created by Anqing No.2 Huangmei Opera Troupe, starring Han Zaifen and Huang Xinde, written by Chen Xinyi and Liu Yuncheng, and directed by Chen Xinyi and Cao.