Unremitting Pursuit of Dreams (Part 1: The Spirit of Famous Artists from Kunqu Opera Celebrating 50 Years of Artistic Career)

Author: Ye Changhai, edited by Cai Zhengren
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: No. 9 Shaoxing Road witnessed history. The artists we are about to meet are a group of Kunqu opera selecting artists like Shang Kun. They graduated from the first Kunqu actor class of Shanghai Opera School, commonly known as Kun Da Ban, and are a batch of Kunqu performance talents nurtured by New China. In 2004, their artistic careers celebrated their fiftieth anniversary. Fifty years ago, they were led into the of Kunqu opera. Over the past fifty years, they have made the ancient art bloom with new brilliance. After fifty years, they have long become the undisputed pride of this land. Fifty years, half a century—this is a wholehearted commitment, a precious guardianship. Today, as Kunqu opera has already garnered worldwide attention, as the status of national culture and ancient arts is receiving increasingly widespread attention, and as more people gaze and breathe in the distant fragrance of traditional arts, the efforts of these artists have become even more evident in their extraordinary value.