The Artistic Characteristics Of The Opera "Regret For The Past" And Its Positive Effect On The Development Of Chinese Opera

Chinese Opera is a unique type of artistic form fused with western opera, which was come down to China from the early 20th century, and native music. As an extensive conception of musical dramatic performance, Chinese Opera, developed on the basis of a fusion of multiform Chinese native music (especially dramatic music and dancing music) and foreign opera, is the result of combination of sino-foreign drama and music.Experienced with almost one-century development in China, full of frustrations and hardship, nearly 100 Chinese Opera works came into being. Even intermingled with the good and bad, these artistic practices established a firm foundation for current and future development of Chinese Opera, made useful exploration in the formation of Opera with Chinese characteristics."What is the Opera with Chinese characteristics?" Proceeded with summarizing and concluding the essential characters and collective styles of Chinese Opera developed in almost 100 years, the thesis analyses and researches on "Regret for the Past" - one of innovative works of Chinese Opera, comes to some revelatory conclusions on creative work of Chinese Opera.The thesis consists of three parts-introduction, text, and conclusion. In the introduction part, three specific problems about stylizing mature Chinese Opera are put forward. Meanwhile, introduction part sets forth the cause of choosing "Regret for the Past" as analysis object, and the significance of this thesis. Text part is composed of three sections: Section 1 outlines primary characters and the situation of early creative works of Chinese Opera; Section 2 analyzes the artistic characteristic of the opera "Regret for the Past" in detail ; Section 3 summarizes the development of Chinese Opera during 1980' 5^1990' s, including practical meaning revealed by composing thought and method of " Regret for the Past " . Finally, answering three questions quoted in introduction part, Conclusion part appraises Shi Guangnan~the composer of the opera "Regret for the Past" correctly and values the positive effect of the opera "Regret for the Past" on the development of Chinese Opera.