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Yin Guifang
Yue opera xiaosheng performer, founder of the Yin school, who formed the Fanghua troupe in Shanghai in 1946 and moved it to Fuzhou in 1959
Backstage of a theatre troupe, an open trunk spills embroidered red and blue robes, one worked with a phoenix, beneath a jewelled headdress with long plumes; a mirror stand, a stool and a row of painted drums stand beside it, with a red curtain hanging at the right.
Also known as Known as the Emperor of Yue opera
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Yin Guifang was born in Xinchang, Zhejiang, in 1919, began training with the Xingshi troupe of Sheng county in 1929 and settled on young male roles. From 1944 she and Zhu Shuizhao took up the reformed 'new Yue opera' in Shanghai, and in February 1946 she formed the Fanghua troupe. Her style of xiaosheng singing became the Yin school, followed so widely that it was said 'nine of ten xiaosheng sing Yin'. Her repertoire included He Wenxiu, Probing and Winning the Wife, Qu Yuan, The Desert Prince and Dream of the Red Chamber. In 1959 she moved the Fanghua Yue Opera Troupe to Fuzhou, where it continues as the Fujian Fanghua Yue Opera Troupe. She died in Shanghai in March 2000.
Life and times
Dates 1919 CE–2000 CE