On The Artistic Features Of Shanghai Peking Opera

Peking Opera has been more than two hundred years as the quintessence of our country. It first appeared in shanghai although it’s named of peking opera. On the basis of traditional Beijing Opera, in combination with the cultural environment in Shanghai, it formed a unique art form called “the shanghai school of peking opera”.In the last century, Shanghai developed rapidly combining commerce and industry after the opium war the old. As the important trading ports in the southeast coast, Shanghai has brought all kinds of culture together with different regions. Like the old saying goes, “economic base determines the superstructure”, Shanghai’s commercialized atmosphere is spawned a culture which extremely has the characteristics of Shanghai-style culture. With the popularity of Shanghai-style culture, Peking Opera becomes more prosperous and acquires a place rapidly in Shanghai. Since then, the Shanghai Peking Opera has been popular. In the play, Shanghai Peking Opera has its own characteristics which are different from the northern tradition. Either the development of Continuing Grand Opera or the innovation of performance skills and scene, Shanghai Peking Opera all maintain a bold reform and innovation in the process of development, which plays an important role in the history of Beijing Opera.This paper will analyze the source of Shanghai Peking Opera’s feature combined with the unique geographical culture of Shanghai. Through the analysis of typical repertoire and performance characteristics of Shanghai Peking Opera, it summarizes its unique features of art, and then presents its brilliant artistic achievement one by one. At present, Shanghai Peking Opera is staging and Beijing Opera is also forwarding develop difficultly in the exploration. Reform and innovation is still the important way that injects vigor to the traditional opera art. Hoping the successful experience created in the progress of Shanghai Peking Opera can provide some good references for the development of future opera, which is also the purpose of the text.