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more than 3,000 smaller troupes performing singing everybody in region can sing a little bit story - white snake falls in love w/ young man, married him evil monk turns her back into a snake, husband wants to be a monk on bridge, she entreats husband to come back to her Wugu - 2nd most popular opera in Zhejiang Province masterpiece of cultural heritage, preserved by UNESCO 5 roles: Shen, dan, jing, mo, clown? Singing, speaking, action, martial arts, music-elements of opera facial make-up costumes are unusual in Chinese opera Jingju (Beijing opera) 200 yrs of history Wuji - 450 yrs. - older than jingju, ancestor of Beijing opera dozens of famous plays in repertoire all plays are different in structure, music is beautiful, folk music, ensemble of 50 people performance on suona (wind instrument) + demo of suona technniques dang (blowing) or tu shuang (double) tu hua (fluttering) ? (connected notes run together) ? (sliding notes) difficult instrument to play well, many more special techniques fast tempos in suona music, lots of energy, spirit also some sad, slow tunes suona - famous folk instrument, happy & mournful sounds lead instrument in wuju - imp. role in the music Du Xianjun on erhu, folk piece from Zhejiang erhu - one of the representative instruments in Chinese folk music suona - imp. in accompaniment huihu - 3rd instrument 6 distinct kinds of singing during cultural rev, traditional operas stopped but revolutionary opera continued