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Date: 2: 00 pm, September 20, 2013 (Friday)
Venue: Multifunctional Hall, 4F, Shanghai Library (1555 Huaihai Zhong Road)
Booking code: 130903
Speakers：Jin Caifeng (a Yueju performance artist)
Chen Jun (a Yueju aria designer)
Fang Yafen (a famous Yueju opera singer)
Code：130903
Introduction
Over ninety years old, the famous Yueju Opera singer Jin Yanang is quite well-known for her talent in the trade. Her career as a performance artist has gone through different periods of development of the Yueju opera and come into contact with a variety of performance forms. She herself is good at playing different female roles. This lecture is not only a review of her art, but also reflects the importance attached by the theater circle to the female roles in Yueju opera, as well as the sense of responsibilities of cultural communities in transmitting the traditional culture and carrying forward the fine art of folk operas.
 Coinciding with the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jin Yanfang's students, friends and family will gather in the Shanghai Library to share their deep feelings for the Yueju opera.
Speakers
Jin Caifeng is a state first-level actor. She is good at playing young female roles and has her own style of performance. Her voice is bright, natural and smooth, showing brilliance and softness at the same time. She has a number of representative works. In 1993, she won the "Most Outstanding Asian Artist Award" issued by the Chines e American Arts Council in New York.
Chen Jun is a second-level performer. In 1960, he entered the Shanghai Yueju Opera House to study Yueju opera music, majoring in erhu and studying  with Zhou Baocai. After graduation, he went on working at the same opera house. In his art career of a few decades, he has worked as an erhu player, songwriter, aria designer and music teacher.
Fang Yafen is a first-level actor, Director of the No. 1 Shanghai Yueju Opera House, and winner of the Drama Plum Blossom Award. She has played roles in many Yueju operas, such as the "Dream of Red Mansions" and "The West Chamber" etc. She has twice won the "Shanghai Magnolia Award for Theatrical Performing Arts", and in 2009, she was named as a representative inheritor of the Shanghai non-material cultural heritage project.
How to Attend the Lecture
1. Tickets are available at the information desk since March 1, 2013.
2. Text Message Booking: readers can text "JZ□Booking Codes□Name" to 021 2573 1500; or access through mobile phone to the Shanghai Library web site at http://m.library.sh.cn.
3. Online Booking: please register and log onto http://www.library.sh.cn/jiang for booking.
Deadline for all bookings is 2 days before the lecture.
Please register 30 minute in advance at the entrance of the Multifunctional Hall after a successful booking.
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