Research on Male Dan in Chinese Peking Opera and Castrato in Italian Opera

DOI

10.2991/essaeme-15.2015.15How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Peking opera, Opera, Male Dan, Castrato, Pharyngeal voice, Vocal music

Abstract

Chinese Peking opera and Italian opera are ancient musical art forms in the East and West, and the reason why they are long-standing is that they have extensive and profound cultural heritage and the deep historical heritage, more importantly; they both have a special form of artistic expression. Either the male Dan in Chinese Peking opera or castrato in Italian opera uses profound vocal skills and unique interpretation ways to demonstrate the uniqueness of “pharyngeal singing”, and present the highest level of “Men singing female roles”. This paper from the perspective of these two forms of artistic expression and special vocal interpretation of pharyngeal tone, studies their value in the field of art today.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - QunYing Wang
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TI  - Research on Male Dan in Chinese Peking Opera and Castrato in Italian Opera
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Economics, Social Science, Arts, Education and Management Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
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