【昆曲】《牡丹亭• 惊梦》单雯 Kunqu Opera -- " The Peony Pavilion • Broken Dream "

【昆曲】《牡丹亭• 惊梦》

Kunqu Opera -- " The Peony Pavilion • Broken Dream "

演唱：单雯

江苏省昆剧院

FYI -- As other Chinese Operas, Kunqu Opera was played by male actors when it originally appeared. However, it was not a very long time before females could play a real role. Now almost all the female rolls of modern version of Kunqu are played by female actress, unless in some fare specific conditions (very ancient original version)

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• 昆曲
• 牡丹亭
• 惊梦
• 单雯
• Kunqu
• Opera
• The
• Peony
• Pavilion
• Broken
• Dream

[cmrodomal]

Please, is a male or female singer? Very very beautifull!

[reggieobster]

@cmrodomal It is played by a lady. FYI -- As other Chinese Operas, Kunqu Opera was played by male actors when it originally appeared. However, it was not a very long time before females could play a real role. Now almost all the female rolls of modern version of Kunqu are played by female actress, unless in some fare specific conditions (very ancient original version)

[MoctezumaBlood]

im in love with this opera... just i want to know ....she does her own makeup?

and the characters are "playing" be guys only? (it doesnt matter for me really...just i want to know...)

[reggieobster]

@MoctezumaBlood

Nope, the actress's makeup is done by professional makeup artists. The process is very complicated. The characters are women in this show. In some special shows the rolls are played by men. This is different with japanese opera, whose central chatacters are mainly played by men.

[konkaywa]

Magnificent.

[reggieobster]

@konkaywa

yes, the kunqu opera is really graceful.

[xzhuucsc]

@xiaodongzili 老兄，你指望洋人领略这种含蓄且不失风韵的东方女性美，就和指望­猴子读懂唐诗一样，太不现实了～

[xiaodongzili]

@igrung 您说的对，我只是看到他不分青红皂白就来诋毁才愤怒的。他说每个­音都“不准，跑调”，殊不知我们中国传统音乐根本不是用的平均率­，怎么能用他们的率制来评判其他民族的音乐呢？

[igrung]

the most beautiful drama in the world, it has more than 600 hundred years already, the lyrics are not the lyrics like western drama, it is actually Chinese poems. the players are singing poems in the play, rhyme, sensible, elegant and fantastic.

[igrung]

@xiaodongzili 先生说的太过偏激了 洋人不是不懂美 而是不懂得精致 高雅的美 西方文化是庸俗文化 就像他们把宗教搞的让每个老百姓都能接受一样 但是中国的宗教不一样 缺乏修养 没有受过教育的人是根本入不了宗教门槛的 简单而言 西方是粗且庸的美 而中国是精与雅的美 方向不同 天壤之别

[FranticGrass]

@cmrodomal Kunqu's beauty is not only at its melody,costume and steps. It has great narrations and its lyric is just a poem, because it was not make by folks; at ancient time, Kunqu's lyric, was all made by real poets. Unfortunately, that is also part of the reason why it is not popular nowadays, because modern people don't understand ancient poem well.

[FranticGrass]

@reggieobster

hmm.... in A Dream of Red Mansions, female roles were played by female actors-- that was at least 4-hundred years ago......; In most cases, if the troupe was owned by private mansion and not played in public, actors are mainly females who played both male and female roles--- actually in ancient time, private troupe was the most popular form ....

[2xtrbo]

@xiaodongzili it is remixed by wavestrikeIDM if you go to his Youtube and look for Frozen Cedars.

[cmrodomal]

@reggieobster Thank you very much for answer my question. Very beautifull culture.

[xiaodongzili]

有些洋人果然蛮夷到一定程度，他们的呆滞的脑子根本不懂得什么叫­美。

[xiaodongzili]

@2xtrbo You pity "Well Tempered" tuning system creature.