Liu Danli: Visualising the Chinese Dream
Liu Danli: Visualising the Chinese Dream

Summary/Abstract: This essay examines how the performance art of Chinese national soprano Liu Danli narrates successfully the Chinese Dream and thus arouses new hopes and a rising sense of confidence in Chinese people’s minds. Her masterpieces Si Qing Ji, Hong Hu Chi Wei Dui, and You Ai Cai You Jia have been building our own culture from different angles. Her unique style, with elegant and poetic interpretation, is formed due to her tough training and abundant stage experience gained in early years at the theatre group. She has been integrating the scientific methods of opera singing in occidental bel canto to her later arias, combining Chinese Xiqu techniques in phrasing, singing and body movement into vivid characterization, thus making daring reforms in script adaptation, voice appropriateness, ballet footwork, action design, melody design and singing style to canonic plays and recreating new canons.

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