Draft:Tang Mei Yun Taiwanese Opera Company

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Tang Mei Yun Taiwanese Opera Company is a private Taiwanese opera troupe that specially focuses on producing large-scale stage Taiwanese opera productions.[1] The troupe was founded in 1998 by Tang Mei-yun, who is also the artistic director, leader, and producer of the troupe.[2] The troupe has been awarded the Best Group Performance at the Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music for five times.[3][4][5][6][7]

History[edit]

The founder Tang Mei-yun was born into a family of Taiwanese opera performers. Her father Chiang Wu-tung, whose original name was Ichiro Morita, and her mother Tang Ping-sen, whose stage name was Tang Yen-chiu were both Taiwanese opera performers. Tang Mei-yun started performing Taiwanese opera when she was in junior high school, and has experienced various developmental stages of Taiwanese opera, including indoor performances, outdoor performances, and TV Taiwanese operas. In the 1990, she was recruited by the Holo Taiwanese Opera Troupe as the lead of the “sheng” (male) role, which established her status in the field of Taiwanese opera. In 1998, Tang founded Tang Mei Yun Taiwanese Opera Company with the aim of “inheriting the tradition and making innovation.”[8]

The troupe collaborates with several important performers, including national treasure Wang Chin-ying, Chen Feng-kuei (stage name Hsiao Mi), and “The Lady Forever” Hsu Hsiu-nien.[9] In the early period, the troupe worked with playwrights Ke Tsung-ming and Shih Ru-fang, [10] creating several new adaptions and original productions, e.g., “Somewhere for True Love, Crooks of World”, and “Love on Pregnancy”. Works written solely by Shih Ru-fang include “The Immortal Lover, Who Is My Bride?”, “Seal of 1895”, and “Yen Ko Hsing”. Shih Ru-fang introduced young playwright Chen Chien-hsing,[11] who is now the troupe’s resident playwright, to the troupe in 2011, and Chen has thus explored new topics for Taiwanese opera, writing works such as “The Maze of Memories”, “The Double Life of Princess Wencheng”, “Song of the Fireflies”,[12] “Legend of the White Snake”, “The Storyteller and Her Dream”, “Royal Feast of the Underworld”, and TV Taiwanese opera “Tavern by the Lethe”.[11]

Performance[edit]

The main focus of the troupe is “creating.” Apart from exploring and trying out new stories,[13] it also seeks breakthroughs and interdisciplinary cooperation in music. The compositions for the early productions were done by Liu Wen-liang, who composed brand-new tunes and melodies for the plays.[14][15] In works such as “Who Is My Bride?”, “Lost Butterfly”, and “Romancing in the Moonlight”, Taiwanese opera melodies and symphony were combined by the collective music design by composers including Chung Yiu-kwong, [16] Ji Yu-chen, and Lee Che-yi.[17] Ji Jun-da, Ji Jun-ting, and Chen Hsin-han are the composers that the troupe currently collaborates with.[18]

Incubators[edit]

To develop young talent, Tang Mei Yun Taiwanese Opera Company established a youth sub-troupe as the base to hone the young members’ skills by arranging varying number of shows for them every year.[19][20]


References[edit]

  1. ^ 劉子鳳，〈唐美雲 歌仔戲輸出美國〉，《聯合報》，D2版，2003-06-09
  2. ^ "唐美雲歌仔戲團". 臺灣文化入口網 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 中華民國文化部. Archived from the original on 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
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  4. ^ "入圍暨得獎名單|傳藝金曲獎". gmafta.ncfta.gov.tw.
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  7. ^ "入圍暨得獎名單|傳藝金曲獎". gmafta.ncfta.gov.tw.
  8. ^ 千北人. "【藝週末．藝週表藝人物】承傳統、創新局─唐美雲《冥遊記》新繹武則天".
  9. ^ "歌仔戲主題知識網". Archived from the original on 2023-07-07. Retrieved 2023-07-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  10. ^ "施如芳". 歌仔戲主題知識網. 國立傳統藝術中心. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  11. ^ a b 廖, 紓均 (November 2020). "陳健星 創作真可怕，但我感謝創作". Par表演藝術 (335). 國家表演藝術中心. Archived from the original on 2023-03-17. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  12. ^ "台中劇院《春櫻小姑2-螢姬物語》 傳統戲曲探討現代社會議題". 台灣好新聞.
  13. ^ 洪素津. "一生嫁給歌仔戲！唐美雲當「劇團長工」到深夜 自詡：關最後一盞燈的人". Archived from the original on 2023-07-24.
  14. ^ 蘇, 盈思 (2009). 唐美雲從業歷程及其唱腔藝術研究. 國立臺灣師範大學. pp. 128–129.
  15. ^ 鄭恒隆 (2009-09-09). "唐美雲歌仔戲團". 臺灣大百科全書. 文化部. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  16. ^ "歌仔戲搭希臘神話 唐美雲分飾兩角 - 台灣醒報 Awakening News Networks". anntw.com. March 23, 2016.
  17. ^ "【藝術文化】唐美雲冥遊記詮釋晚年武則天 邀京劇老生唐文華跨界演出 - 自由藝文網". art.ltn.com.tw. April 21, 2022.
  18. ^ "螢姬物語 穿越時空 解開陰陽師懸念 - 藝文副刊 - 中國時報".
  19. ^ 蔡育豪 (2016-05-28). "唐美雲為熱情的歌仔戲閃耀新秀 量身打造新戲". 民報. 民報文化藝術基金會. Archived from the original on 2023-03-17. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  20. ^ 洪素津. "一生嫁給歌仔戲！唐美雲當「劇團長工」到深夜 自詡：關最後一盞燈的人". Archived from the original on 2023-07-24.

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