1, Chaoyanggou
The unique taste and special status of the classic Yu opera "Chaoyanggou" in the history of Chinese modern theater is indisputable and irreplaceable. It is undoubtedly a milestone work of modern opera, having been premiered in Zhengzhou by the Third Troupe of Henan Yu Theatre on May 19, 1958, with the playwright Yang Lanchun, the directors Yang Lanchun and Xu Xin, and the music designers Wang Kixiao and Jiang Hongxuan.
In November 2020, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the "celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of China's ****anufacturing party stage art excellence creation project" list of key support works, "Chaoyang Gully" was selected as the "100 years of 100" traditional excellence repertoire program. The "Chaoyang Gully" was selected for the "100 Years and 100 Parts" Traditional Excellence Revival Program.
2, Van Wang Gong
"Van Wang Gong", also known as "Luoyang Bridge", "Ye Hanyan", "Huayun shooting", is one of the most influential Yu opera classics, in Beijing opera, Qinqiang, Pu opera, Yu opera, Jin opera, North Road Opera, Hebei opera, Sichuan opera, Dian opera and other types of theater have been performed.
But according to the popularity of each type of theater region, singing characteristics have a big difference, so the performance version is not the same, the performance method is not the same, a lot of famous old artists have spent a lot of effort, for the play to create their own "masterpiece".
3, Spring and Autumn match
Speaking of Henan Yu opera, it is necessary to mention the name of the Yu opera master Chen Sujin, and this "Spring and Autumn match" is Chen Sujin's masterpiece, which is a traditional singing old opera, many kinds of plays, many characters, plot twists and turns long, especially "picking up firewood" one of the most classic, which is also the Chen Sujin spent a lot of effort. It is also the work of Chen Suzhen, who spent his efforts to improve the work, and it is a folded opera that combines singing, recitation and performance in one.
This traditional play was performed by many famous Yu opera artists, such as Lou Fengtong, Guan Yutian, Luo Zhenqian, and other veteran artists who have sung in different styles, while Chen Suzhen's version has been widely circulated and representative, and has been popular since the beginning of the last century, and has become a household name of the Chen School's classical masterpieces.
4. Cheng Ying Saves an Orphan
"Cheng Ying Saves an Orphan" is the most famous Yu Opera classic, the first play to appear on New York's Broadway Theatre after the founding of New China. The play has been interpreted by various versions of Peking Opera, Jin Opera, Qin Opera and so on. However, the Yu Opera's "Cheng Ying Saves an Orphan" re-created the old story, which is a well-known household name, with modern concepts and Yu Opera's unique artistic techniques.
The content retains and strengthens Cheng Ying's "loyalty" and spirit of sacrifice in the moment of crisis, while at the same time giving new connotations to this traditional "loyalty". The 2nd Troupe of Henan Yu Theater created and performed "Cheng Ying Saves the Orphan", which was popular all over the country and won many awards, creating an unprecedented miracle in Yu Opera.
5, three on the sedan chair
"Three on the sedan chair" is maigoo small editor has also heard the classic Yu opera, as early as the 1930s on the land of China, which sang, many of the voice, but also popular in the Central Plains, widely sung.
The play also laid the foundation for the vocal art of the Chen School. Chen Suzhen had taught the play to Cui Lantian, a master of the Yu opera, who had changed the play to the deep, mournful Yuxi tune, and still created a great sensation. Since then it has been transplanted by other styles such as Yueju Opera, Pingju Opera, Qinqiang Opera, Huangmei Opera, Lu Opera, Hebei Opera, Jin Opera, Pu Opera, Chuan Opera, Pingtong Opera, Huaihai Opera, Huai Tiao Opera, Sizhou Opera and Huaiju Opera.
6. White Lotus Flower
White Lotus Flower is a classic Yu Opera opera, which is not like Zhang Yu Boiled Sea, Chasing Fish, Liu Yi Passing the Book, etc., which were transplanted from Yue Opera, but is a traditional mythological drama native to Yu Opera, which is about a thousand-year old Lotus Flower cultivating to become an immortal, falling in love with a mortal woodcutter, Han Ben, and descending to the mortal world for a love story of marriage with him.
The famous Sang School play White Lotus Flower won four first prizes for script, music, performance, and choreography at the 1956 Henan Provincial Yu Opera Genre Competition, making it the only play to win four first prizes at the Genre Competition.
7, White Snake
White Snake
White Snake is one of the early masterpieces of Master Chen Suzhen, the founder of the Queen of Yu Opera, Chen Men Art. It is a play that requires high and comprehensive singing, reading, acting and playing skills of the actors, and it has been performed by Master Chen Suzhen and his disciples in the early years of his career, and it includes the following: White Snake collects the Green Snake in the "Twin Snake Battle," White Snake and Green Snake in the "Borrowing Parasol in the Lake," White Snake and Green Snake in the "Knotting The White Snake and the Green Snake's "Stealing the Treasury Silver", the White Snake's "Wine Transformation", and the White Snake's "Stealing the Immortal Herb".
In 2019, White Snake was selected as the winner of the 7th Chinese Drama Awards - Plum Blossom Performance Award (29th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Awards) in the opera category of the public announcement.
8, Mu Guiying Hanging Marshal
"Mu Guiying Hanging Marshal", also known as the "old levies East", "Ping'an Wang", "Yang Wenguang levies the East", is the Yu Opera masterpiece to appreciate the must-have repertoire, the story of She Taijun returned to the county for several years, thinking about the court of the great event, the order of the great-grandson of Yang Wenguang couples to the Beijing to explore the matter, and the appropriate encounter with the Liaodong An Wang called the table of war, the King of Song rate of the crowd of civil and military school than the military to choose marshals, Mu Guiying a long time away from the Rongma, not willing to
Mu Guiying has been away from the military for a long time and is not willing to go to war.
She Taijun incentives do not comfort, the party received the seal of command, fifty-three years old marshal of the Eastern Expedition, the King of Ping'an, Wenguang and the King's daughter of the King of An An Jin Ding as a concubine of the story. The script was organized and published by Song, was awarded the first prize of the script of the first opera performance in Henan Province, and was filmed into a movie.
9. Carrying the Sedan Chair
"Carrying the Sedan Chair," also known as "Wenwu Exchanging Kisses" and "Fragrant Sacs" in the early days of the opera, is the Henan Opera flower girl's specialty, and also the people's favorite play, and there are a lot of famous actors and actresses who are good at playing the play, such as Chang Xiangyu, Xu Yanqin, Song Shukyun, Liu Sujin, Zhao Jinhong, Zhang Haitang, Li Xiangying, Xiaosuqing, Jia Guihua, Kang Huilan, Zhou Xiumei, Li Li, Wang Xiangping, etc. In particular, the play has been performed in the Henan Province, which is the first prize for the script of the first Henan Opera Festival and has been made into a movie.
Particularly in the rural areas when the marriage is taking place, the loudspeaker is always full of the wonderful singing of "Carrying the Sedan Chair," like "three cannons outside the door of the house to shake the sky and the earth," is even more familiar, adults and children can hum a one, two, three.
10, three crying temple
Yu Opera famous "three crying temple", also known as "Zhenguan family affairs", "Chopping Qin Ying", "Qiankun belt", the story from the "less Western Tang", about the Tang Zhenguan years extra horse harnessed by the side of a team of horse Qin Huaiyu's son, Qin Ying, in the Caixian Bridge, fishing, coincided with the passage of the master of the Zhanhongji, the road gongs scared the fish, Qin Ying killed the master of the story of a mistake.
In 1956, the famous old artists in Henan Province, the Yue tune "Crying Temple" caused a huge sensation, Henan Henan Yu Theater transplanted the play, and then the performance of the troupes are relatively independent of the "Three Crying Temple" has become the main repertoire of the two troupes, the Tang School of the majority of the disciples are good at the play, Jia Tingju, Yen Yongjiang, Ye Hua, Yuan Guoying, Yang Zhili, Ren Jiabo and others have audio-visual materials.