A brief history of the development of Guangdong Cantonese opera schools

Guangdong Cantonese Opera School was founded in 1958, and its predecessor was a juvenile Cantonese opera training class attached to the old Guangzhou artist Cantonese Opera Troupe. The school was originally located in the hall of Haizhuang Park in Guangzhou, with Mr. Bai Jurong, a master of Cantonese opera and known as the "King of Little Students", as the principal.

At the beginning of the school, the teachers of the school were all famous Cantonese opera artists such as Li, Hsinchu, Ceng Sanduo, Song Yuwen, Liang, Chen, Xin Guifei, Jin Shanbing, Sun, Feng Chuyuan, Ruan Shui, Qu Die and Feng Lian. 1958 In the second half of the year, the school was moved to No.3 Liushuijing, Xihu Road (now the headquarters of Guangdong Quyi Troupe) and renamed as "Guangzhou Cantonese Opera School". Less than a year after running the school, a number of influential plays were staged. For example, Ertang Released, Qin Xianglian, Lotus Lantern, Seven Armies Flooded, Song Wu Disrupting Lion Building, etc. At that time, there were a series of reports in Yangcheng Evening News and Guangzhou Daily, which had a wide influence. 1960, with the approval of Meng Jue, then the provincial education commission, the school was moved to No.5 rhinoceros Road (formerly Institute for Nationalities) and named as "Guangdong Cantonese Opera School". Before the Cultural Revolution, there were more than 300 students in Cantonese Opera School, including Cantonese Opera performance, Cantonese Opera music accompaniment and stage art majors. At that time, Cantonese Opera School was an important window for Guangdong's foreign cultural exchanges, and received a large number of foreign guests every year, including cultural messengers, scholars and artists from Sweden, France, Italy, Spain, European socialist countries and Asia, Africa and Latin America. President Ho Chi Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam highly praised the performance of the Cantonese Opera School, that is, he asked Comrade Qu to let the Cantonese Opera School help Vietnam to set up a youth Cantonese Opera Troupe, and the school sent teachers to Zhanjiang to hold a Guangdong youth training class. A year later (1964), the troupe premiered in Guangzhou, and it became an instant hit with a movie "The Wind and Cloud of the Mountain Country" and the famous passbook plays "Mending the Pot", "Going to the Countryside" and "Playing Gong" in five central and southern provinces. Four weeks later, the delegation was praised by President Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam.

1969 the school was closed and the school site was used for other purposes. 197 1 classes resumed. The school is located in Yuangang (the former site of Guangzhou Yangcheng Watch Factory). 1983, No.5 rhinoceros road goes back to school, but the campus area is only one fifth. 1993, the school moved out of No.5 rhinoceros road (now No.699 Dongfeng East). For ten years, the school rented a place to run a school and was ready to leave home. In 2003, with the care and support of the provincial government and the provincial cultural department, the school finally settled in da li, Nanhai, and had its own permanent campus!

65438-0980 Cantonese Opera School was once identified as one of the ten key art secondary schools in China by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education. Both President Bai Jurong and President Sinuhong attach great importance to vocal music training and research, so the vocal music training and research in Cantonese Opera School has been playing an exemplary role among China opera peers. In addition, Nanquan, Nanpai martial arts and Cantonese opera music accompaniment are also the professional strengths of Cantonese opera schools, which are recognized by peers. In 2003, Cantonese Opera major in Cantonese Opera School was approved as a demonstration major of art education in the whole province. In 2004, the school passed the re-evaluation and was rated as the key art secondary school in Guangdong Province.