Sand On The Contribution To The Art Of Shaoxing Opera Director, Research

Sha Huang is a famous scholar type Shaoxing Opera director and artist, He has an important status in the contemporary history of Shaoxing Opera. This essay discusses Sha Huang's contributions to the directing arts of Shaoxing Opera from three aspects, one of these is the full blossom of directed plays, of which the biggest achievements is the new style performance of traditional plays . This essay starts the discussion from the main directing techniques of the three traditional opera masterpieces, "The Butterfly Lovers ", "Jade Hairpin", and "Pan Fu Suo Fu", summarized the art features of perform traditional plays in new styles for Sha Huang. His directed method of the traditional plays does not deliberately show off techniques, does not blindly pile on novelty, is starting from the script, focusing on characterization, while retaining the traditions and showing new styles of traditional plays. The second aspect is theoretical achievements of Sha Huang, mainly focusing on the discussion of theatrical styles, contents related to the theory of styles of play, theory of factuality of opera, and theory of script foundation. Sha Huang's persistence in his development perspective of the importance of maintaining theatrical styles is valuable experience for today's reform and development of Shaoxing Opera. The third aspect is about Sha Huang's contribution in training new talents. Sha Huang takes his work in training new talents into detailed art practices, mainly shown in the roles he helped young actors to create. Caifeng Jin, Jue Liu, Guohua Zhang, Jihua Shi and other young actors then have all been inspired and guided by Sha Huang in portraying characters and creating roles. Sha Huang went all out to guide new talent's work, trained a number of outstanding new actors while created many Shaoxing Operas that the audiences like. Based on the analysis of the theory and practice results of Director Sha Huang, this essay summarized the successful experiences of Sha Huang's directing career, looked for reference for ways to develop Shaoxing Opera under the new terrain.