Yang Gui Ying, is an exceptionally skilled and experienced artist in the field of Chinese opera stage make-up. She is one of an increasingly small group of people who have become a repository for an ancient and traditional art form. The Chinese opera, wigs, facial application and face-painting are highly detailed and specific in their symbolic significance. They are critical to the representation of character types. Artistry is required to create an aesthetically beautiful and dramatic image on stage.Yang Gui Ying is invaluable not only to the tradition of Chinese opera, but to its growth and vitality. She has the requisites of extensive knowledge in traditional methods, but most importantly, artistic ingenuity to create for new plays, new facial designs that or both novel and authentic. In Chinese theatre, as in all theatre, the final production is as much the work of the unseen, as those on stage.

Yang Gui Ying is a reputed and gifted opera make-up artist reached the national and international level of this special field. She served as a professional make-up artist for Shanghai Beijing Opera Theater for more than twenty years in China and toured for the opera performances in many countries in the world. She also worked as opera make-up artist for dance and musical opera "Singing of Midnight", TV series shows "The Historic Records of Chinese Government" and "Han Yu". She has won a lot of national top level awards in China. She was invited to the US as a make-up artist of Peking opera and welcomed by many American Chinese traditional opera institutions including Peking opera, Kujun and Zhaosing opera. Whatever there were important performances in New York, Washington D.C. and Los Angels, Yang Gui Ying would be invited as make-up artist. Her outstanding make-up skills and unique expertise of hair-dress designs enable a leading actress more shining on the stage.

During NYJPW 1998 annual opera performance on December 6, 1998, Yang Gui Ying was appointed as a make-up artist for the whole three performances of "The Proud Fisherman", "The Stealing Ling Zhi" and "The Broken Bridge". Yang Gui Ying possessed the unique skills of opera make-up for the four major role-types which indicate a character's age, gender and level of intrinsic dignity, such as Lao Sheng indicated by the color of his white or black beard and the young female role-type coupled with jeweled hair ornaments and richly embroidered costumes. The unique expertise of opera make-up is in itself an art of work. With Yang's unique expertise, the opera stage figures designed by her made the audiences a very deep impression about their shining and vivid appearances. NYJPW performance got a great successes and received the warm applause from the audiences.

Yang Gui Ying's extraordinary ability in art has highly recognized by many opera performance groups in the US. She was invited to be make-up artist for the TV shows "New York Adventure" (22 episodes) which gained the high comments from the press and TV spots. Recently she has invited as the major make-up artist and hair-dress designer of Kujun opera of "The Peony Pavillion" at the Lincoln Center in this July. Her hair-dress design and make-up for the actresses and actors have published by many magazines and received high publicity as off-stage heroine. NYJPW ranks Yang as the number one opera make-up artist, who has reached the very top level nationally and internationally. She has also received the highest acclaims from the peers, artists and audiences and has been reported and interviewed by the New York Time and CTC TV in New York. Yang Gui Ying lifetime dedication in opera make-up with her extraordinary ability will continuously to contribute the US opera society and entertain American people's life.

Yang Gui Ying & Cheng-Hua Wang Make-Up for Si Lang Visit His Mother

Yang Gui Ying & Cheng-Hua Wang Final Touch for Yang Si Lang

Yang Gui Ying and Her Make-Up Kits

Yang Gui Ying in the Make-Up Room Yang Gui Ying Hat-Dress Monkey King Yang Gui Ying Checking on Dress Yang Gui Ying Hair-Dress Monkey King

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