Yunnan Opera Theatre ZHANG Guimei

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The large-scale modern Yunnan Opera commission ZHANG Guimei is based on the amazing deeds of ZHANG Guimei, a role model of the times. The opera is created by artistic processing of the story about ZHANG Guimei, an ordinary but great person, persisting in founding and running a school despite the hardship. It focuses on her loyalty to the Party, her emphasis on education, and her care for the teachers and students. The challenges in making home visits visualises her maternal love for students; the difficulties in raising funds shows her steadfast faith; the problems in founding a school embodies her persistence in dreams. All this reveals the legendary life experiences of ZHANG Guimei, who stays true to her original aspirations of running education, never giving up on her dreams, and dedicating herself to her career.

ZHANG Guimei, female, Manchu, who was born in the Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning Province in June 1957, joined the Party in April 1998. She is Secretary of CPC Branch and Headmaster of the Huaping County Girls’ Senior High School, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, and Director of the Huaping County Children’s Home. She was a delegate to the 17^th National Congress of the CPC. Having been rooted in poverty-stricken areas for more than 40 years, ZHANG Guimei, who is hailed as “Mom ZHANG” remains dedicated to education, founded China’s first tuition-free senior high school for girls, and has helped more than 1,800 impoverished girls realize their dreams of attending an university. Through explorations, she has created a characteristic teaching model, putting the red gene at the core to cultivate and toughen young people. She often works selflessly in spite of illness, and has visited more than 1,600 households within 12 years, covering more than 110,000 kilometres. She has won honourary titles including the National Model for Poverty Alleviation, National Outstanding Communist, National Advanced Worker, etc., and was awarded the “July 1^st Medal” by the Central Committee of the CPC.

Chief Consultant: CHEN Xunru
Chief Planner: ZHAO Guoliang
Chief Producer: WANG Jianghong
Executive Presenter: WANG Runmei
Planner: WANG Runmei
Executive Producers: WANG Runmei, ZHANG Yong
Coordinator: XU Can

Creative
Librettists: LI Shiqin, YAO Jincheng, ZHANG Shenjia
Director: ZHOU Long (Guest)
Deputy Director: WANG Dacheng
Tune Designers: LIU Jingwei, MA Yiwei, SUN Lin
Music Designer: WANG Xiaobing
Arr.: ZHOU Yu, ZHOU Xiaotong
Conductor/ Drummers: ZHANG Yong, XU Can
Primary Chord: MA Yiwei, SUN Lin
Set Designers: KONG Yifan, WANG Xiaoyan, CHEN Xiao
Lighting Designers: KONG Yifan, ZHU Wei, CHEN Meng
Costume Designers: GUO Lingyun, LIU Xinyou
Props Designer: YANG Xiaofang
Hair Style Designers: ZHAO Wenjie, YIN Fei, LIU Meizhu
Dance Designer: MA Sha
Sound Designer: LI Xingpei

Cast
ZHANG Guimei: WANG Runmei/ JIANG Ping
DONG Yuhan: WANG Bin
ZHANG Guimei (Young): LU Xiangxuan/ LIU Junchen
ZHONG Laosuo: LI Wei/ XU Weiping
ZHONG Xiu: NIAN Yuanyuan/ LI Qiuying
Lady MA: BAI Dongjing/ LIU Min
DU Zhiyuan: CHEN Nan/ LIANG Jingyi
TIAN Xiuyun: ZHAO Cunfen/ MU Lijuan
Little Maotao: ZHENG Haowen
Secretary: TIAN Minggang
Commissioner: MA Jun
Master QIN: LIU Yunying
Female Student: LI Qiuying
Teachers: WANG Junsong, ZHANG Yan, XU Weiping, LIANG Jingyi
The masses in the station: ZHANG Junbo, YAN Keshan, YU Yong, CHEN Xiaolong, LIU Xiandong, BU Weiwei, ZHANG Xin, LI Jiao, HE Xiu
The masses in the construction site: ZHANG Junbo, YAN Keshan, YU Yong, CHEN Xiaolong, LIU Xiandong, LI Siyan, ZHANG Yuxin, HU Jinchuan
ZHANG Guimei (At the beginning): LIU Min
NIU Xing: LI Shixin/ HU Biao
Tibetan Students: SHA Xiaosi, DUAN Yanxinyu, CHEN Longwei, YANG Guoxi, YANG Jianjun, ZHOU Quan, ZHANG Shuai, GAO Lei
Female High School Students: CHEN Ya, ZHOU Jin, JIA Xiaoyan, MU Lijuan, BU Weiwei, LI Jiao, ZHANG Xin, HE Xiu, GAO Juan, XU Qingyuan, LIU Junchen, LIU Xiaoying, YIN Jiaqi, CAO Min, SU Yiming
Soloist: CHEN Yaping
Chorus: CHEN Yaping, ZHOU Xia, ZHAO Chunfen, GAO Juan, WANG Junsong, ZHANG Yan, LU Xiangxuan, JIANG Ping, WANG Bin, YU Yong, LI Wei, LIANG Jingyi, XU Weiping, LIU Yunying, LI Yulong
Stage Managers: YU Kunquan, ZHAO Guocai

Orchestra
Conductor/ Drummers: ZHANG Yong, XU Can
Primary Chord: MA Yiwei, SUN Lin
Secondary Chord: KONG Wenjiao
Yueqin Artist: YU Xiaoyun
Bangdi Flutist: BI Jing
Qudi Flutist: FU Yiqi
Soprano Sheng Artist: WANG Xin
Soprano Suona Artist: YANG Sunda
Alto Suona Artist: LI Shangyao
Flutist: JIN Hanyang
Oboe Artist: WU Haoji
Clarinetist: XIE Qiuye
Pipa Artists: ZHAO Jia, ZHAO Xueting
Yangqin Artist: SHI Meirong
Zhongruan Artist: RAN Qiaoyan
Daruan: MA Ling
Guzheng: HU Rui
Synthesiser: ZHANG Tong
Timpanist: LI Yang
Erhu I Artists: YANG Nanchuan, SU Qianxi, XU Kunhua, HAO Zuoqin
Erhu II Artists: LI Jiang, HUANG Junyu
Zhonghu Artists: ZENG Zeng, WANG Wenrong
Cellists: FAN Kaixian, YANG Wenqi
Double Bass Artist: LIU Jingyi
Percussionists: XIONG Weiming, LI Peng, HU Wenpeng, PANG Xing
Stage Personnels: LI Peng, SHI Meirong

Cooperator
Publicity Department of Huaping County Party Committee of the CPC

Acknowledgements
Huaping County Party Committee of the CPC
Huaping County People’s Government
Publicity Department of Huaping County Party Committee of the CPC
Huaping County Bureau of Culture and Tourism
Huaping County Education and Sports Bureau
Huaping County Cultural Centre
Lijiang Radio and TV Station
Huaping County Girls' Senior High School, Lijiang
Lijiang County Middle School for Nationalities
Yunnan Vocational College of Culture & Art

Presenter

Yunnan Opera Theatre
The Yunnan Opera is one of the main local operas in Yunnan Province. With a history of more than 200 years, it is known as the cultural quintessence of Yunnan Province. Established in October 1951, the Yunnan Opera Theatre is an exemplary Yunnan Opera art ensemble. In June 2008, the Yunnan Opera was included in the second State-Level Non-Material Cultural Heritage List by the State Council while the Yunnan Opera Theatre was identified as a protector of the Yunnan Opera, a national intangible cultural heritage. In May 2011, the Yunnan Opera Theatre was announced as a public performing arts institution by the Publicity Department of the CPC and Ministry of Culture. It is now a public-interest institution.

Since its establishment, the Theatre has stood committed to creating high-quality works, burnishing its image, and expanding publicity to achieve greater development. The Yunnan Opera artists, who are devoted to building on past achievements and striving for new progress from generation from generation, have excavated, arranged, inherited, transplanted and created a large number of excellent operas with their own unremitting efforts. Some of them were cordially received by the Party and state leaders including MAO Zedong, ZHOU Enlai, and LI Xiannian. The Changchun Film Studio produced a Yunnan Opera film titled “A Marriage of Wife Borrowing”, which was screened across the country. After that, many works, including A Spring Melody, Righteous Blood of Guanshan Mountain, Soul of Guqin, Immortal Iron and Blood, Jingniang, Flow, Returning Home, In and Out of the Opera, In and Out of the Door, In and Out of the Feelings, In and Out of the Pool, and ZHANG Guimei, have won many prizes including the Award by Ministry of Culture, Excellent Literary and Artistic Masterpiece Award by Yunnan Province, New Opera Award, Huadeng Award for Contribution to Yunnan Opera Revitalization, and financial support from the China National Arts Fund.

With the development of the Yunnan Opera, the Theatre is often invited to large-scale performing arts events held both at home and abroad, such as the 16^th Chinese Opera Festival held by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles in Chongqing, Zhejiang, Hunan, Henan, etc., China Boxing Intangible Cultural Heritage (Rare) Operetta Festival, and NCPA 2019 Intangible Cultural Heritage Opera Festival. Also, the Theatre has delivered performances in foreign countries and regions including Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Singapore, and Madagascar on invitation. In addition, the Theatre recorded 18 episodes of the Yunnan Opera highlights, with a total of 540 minutes, at the invitation of CCTV-11 Appreciation of Classical Opera Arias, arousing strong repercussions among theatre goers. Since its founding, the Theatre has followed the socialist literary and artistic orientation, guidelines and principles while offering cultural services at the grass-roots level, offering many public-spirited performances in Qujing, Honghe, Baoshan, Chuxiong, and other cities in Yunnan Province.

WANG Yuzhen and CHEN Yaping, two artists of the Theatre, have won the Plum Blossom Prize, while another artist enjoys special government allowances from the State Council; 17 artists have won the Camellia Award, the highest prize for opera performance by Yunnan Province; 13 artists enjoy special allowances from the Yunnan Provincial Government or have won the Yunnan Province’s Award for Literary and Four Kinds of Talents in the First Batch by the Yunnan Provincial Publicity Department, Provincial Development of Culture, and Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles; artists including WANG Runmei, CHEN Yaping, WU Lan, and WANG Shuping have been awarded the title of Young Performing Artist by the Provincial Development of Culture; other artists, including WANG Bin, TAI Guangyuan, DENG Laisha, ZHAO Chunfen, and LIU Shanshan, have been awarded the title of Outstanding Young Actor/Actress by the Provincial Development of Culture. At present, the Theatre has excavated, arranged, inherited, transplanted and created more than 300 Yunnan operas, and won more than 310 national and provincial awards including collective and personal honours.
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