One Hundred Famous Opera Arias: Chinese-English Contrastive Translation

Author: Wang Shibin
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: Peking Opera is one of the valuable treasures of the Chinese nation. Traditional Peking Opera plays are abundant in number, and the aria segments are even thousands in quantity. The one hundred aria segments selected from the fifty plays in this book are only a small part of the Peking Opera treasury. Although the number of selected aria segments is limited, this book strives to showcase the diversity of the segments in terms of roles, musical modes, and rhythmic forms, and includes representative works of famous masters from various schools. The main part of the book is the lyrics, accompanied by brief plot summaries of the plays to which the segments belong. The purpose is to provide references for general Peking Opera enthusiasts to appreciate the aria segments, as well as to offer supplementary material for Peking Opera researchers to explore the plots of the plays and even the overall art of Peking Opera.