''The Hundredth Bride'' 《第一百个新娘》 is a 1980
Chinese-language western-style opera
Chinese contemporary classical opera (Chinese: 当今古典歌剧; ''dāngjīn gŭdiăn gējù''; "contemporary classical opera") is a musical art form drawing on western opera traditions - distinct from modern developments of traditional Chinese ...
by Wang Shiguang and Cai Kexiang. The opera is set in
Uygur areas. Songs from the opera were distributed using the
jianpu
The numbered musical notation (, not to be confused with the integer notation) is a cipher notation system used in China, and to some extent in Japan (with 7th being si,), Indonesia (in a slightly different format called "not angka"), Malaysia, Au ...
Chinese
numbered musical notation
The numbered musical notation (, not to be confused with the integer notation) is a cipher notation system used in China, and to some extent in Japan (with 7th being si,), Indonesia (in a slightly different format called "not angka"), Malaysia, Au ...
making selections from the opera more widely known.
[Robert H. Cowden ''Opera Companies of the World: Selected Profiles'' 1992 - Page 44 "Flower-Guardian (1979), Peng Dehuai Sits on the Sedan Chair (1980), The Hundredth Bride (1981), The Youth of Today (1982), The Wedding Sonata (1983), and The Homeland (1984) are all examples of contemporary Chinese opera."]
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Chinese western-style operas
Operas
1980 operas
Xinjiang in fiction