Gao Ming

Gao Ming

▪ Chinese author
Wade-Giles romanization  Kao Ming , courtesy name (zi)  Zecheng 
born c. 1305, Rui'an, Zhejiang province, China
died c. 1370, Ninghai, Zhejiang province

      Chinese poet and playwright whose sole surviving opera, Pipaji (The Lute), became the model for drama of the Ming dynasty.

      Quitting a frustrating official career under the Mongol regime in 1356, Gao found a new vocation in the theatre. As a southerner, he shunned the fashionable zaju (“variety theatre”), which was flourishing in the north under Mongol patronage, and instead wrote for the nanxi (“southern drama”), an operatic folk theatre associated with the former Song capital of Hangzhou. His opera Pipaji, completed about 1367, won the favour of the founding Ming emperor and enjoyed sufficient popularity to restore the nanxi form to national stature. A moralistic tragicomedy, Pipaji tells how a devoted wife, Zhao Wuniang, wanders as an itinerant lute player to find her husband, Cai Bojie, an ambitious scholar who has abandoned her and his aging parents in quest of fame at court. The work won renown both for its libretto, which elevated the popular operatic verse into a polished poetic medium, and for its melodious, romantic southern music.

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