The Evolution Of Chinese National Opera Singing Portrayal Of Women

Opera is a comprehensive art, which is integrated with theater, literature, music, art and stage, is the product of national culture and other arts. Contemporary Chinese folk opera with the development of Chinese society started from 1920s-1930s which has experienced a process of exploration, development and prosperity in the 21st century. After the founding of People’s Republic of China, a series of folk opera works about different themes appeared, such as "The Red Coral", "Miss Jiang", "Struggles in an Ancient City", promoted extraordinary splendor for the development of China’s folk opera. Of these different forms of folk opera, there were many typical arias to show all kinds of female images, in which the creation of female images showed the light on the evolutional process of female voice tune in a way. The author selects the three operas, in which the author analyzes the classical arias to show the evolutional process of systematic tunes in the shaping of female images. The thesis not only has an important significance on the evolution of the female voice tune, but also has a revelation to all other art forms. That is to say:things can be innovative with the development of the times, but the elements of national characteristics are not lost in the process of creation, otherwise it will affect the vitality of art itself.Paper based on the present situation of research on contemporary Chinese national opera literature review, expounds the design of female voice tune, the developmental characteristics of voice tune and the evolutional changes of voice tune in the female images of the Chinese contemporary folk operas. In the paper, the author mainly expounds the character "Miss Shan" in the arias of "The Red Coral". In the "Miss Jiang", it selects the second edition as the analysis object. In the "Struggles in an Ancient City", it selects the typical female images "Mother Yang" "Yin Huan" "Jin Huan" to compare with "Miss Shan" and "Miss jiang" in the former folk operas. The thesis takes the musical text analysis as the key points, the music ontology analysis as the innovative points and compares three folk operas from different angles. It presents the evolutional changes in the female images.The absorption, reference and fusion of Chinese folk opera from foreign operas are influenced by the following factors, such as the development and progress of society, creators’the pursuit of art, public’s demand and so on. While a combination of Chinese and Western elements are beneficial to the progress of operas, stylized reference from the foreign operas abates the national characters, which is hard to spread and not easily accepted by the public. "The Red Coral", "Miss Jiang", "Struggles in an Ancient City" all show the systematic tune and respectively represents three different times. Meanwhile they are changing with the development of the times, in which the national character elements of female systematic tune are not missing in the contemporary Chinese folk operas. It must consider the audience and the aesthetic needs of the masses in the development Chinese folk operas. Meanwhile, public’s love for the revolutionary folk operas confirms the popularity of the mainstream in Chinese society.