The Distance between Opera and Ordinary People – Discussion on the Development of the Chinese Opera Market

摘要

Opera was sourced from Europe. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, western Catholics spread opera into China in the name of missionary activity. Till the 1920s, opera really sprouted in China. Up to now, it has been approximately a hundred years for the development of opera in China. In practice, however, opera is not stable in China. It used to have the "Chinese opera crisis". In this paper, the author explained the current situation and the development tendency of the Chinese opera market from multiple perspectives, and proposed some constructive suggestions. The origin Chinese opera used for reference the scale of western opera. It is a kind of traditional inheritance of art. The development of Chinese opera is influenced by traditional musical aesthetics through and national characters of Chinese culture. Therefore, Chinese opera has its unique charms. In fact, however, Chinese people experienced a long process of gradual understanding and adaption from passiveness and curiosity to conscious learning due to Chinese nation's deep-rooted aesthetic consciousness and mood of national culture.