Yue Opera

Yue Opera is one of the main operas in south china. It is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi and some places in Hong Kong, Marcao and Southeast Asia where the overseas Chinese are gathering. Cantonese is being used in the performers' singings and dialogues. The basic tune of Cantonese opera is Banghuang, retaining the Kun, Ge and Guang tunes as well as taking the advantages of Guangdong folk songs and the current tunes. Except using the folk music instruments, such as the erhu, gaohu, sanxian and yueqin as the accompany instruments, some middle and low pitched western instruments are also being creatively used, such as violin, saxophone. As absorbing the absorbing the excellence of talking opera, opera and film in the performance, stage arts and lamp decorations, Cantonese opera is getting its own characteristics. There are ten main characters in this opera at first, while now it has been decreased to some unique ones, for example wenwusheng, xiaosheng, zhengyinhuadan, erbanghuadan, chousheng and wusheng.

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