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Tian Chuan
Opera librettist from Liu'an, Anhui, who with Yang Lanchun adapted Zhao Shuli's story into the comic national opera Xiao Erhei's Marriage in 1952 and wrote more than twenty libretti.
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Tian Chuan was born in Liu'an, Anhui, in 1926 and was writing and acting in plays with a youth troupe while still a boy. He later joined the opera department of the Central Academy of Drama. In 1952, with Yang Lanchun, he adapted Zhao Shuli's story into the opera Xiao Erhei's Marriage, set to music by Ma Ke and others and first staged early in 1953; it is called the first comic national opera and has stayed in the repertoire. He went on to write more than twenty opera libretti. He died in October 2013, and a four-volume collection of his libretti, criticism and scores appeared the next year.
Life and times
Dates 1926 CE–2013 CE