Xie Tao, a national first-class actor, an expert enjoying special allowances from the State Council, and a winner of the 14th and 24th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Awards.
Xie Tao was born in 1967 in a Family of Jin Opera, and the family environment and artistic atmosphere had a great influence on her. When she graduated from primary school at the age of 11, Xie Tao received both the admission letters of the key middle school and the Taiyuan City Art School, and she tore up the admission letter of the key middle school behind her parents' back without thinking, leaving herself a way to go to the drama school. After entering the school, the main Gongdanjiao. After 5 years of study, after graduating at the age of 16, he entered the Taiyuan Experimental Jin Theater Youth Troupe. In the beginning, it was all a dan role play, and it was well acted. But she found that although she was good-looking and good at singing, she was not the type that could surprise the four as soon as she appeared, and she began to want to transfer students. After making up her mind, she went to learn drama from Teacher Li Yuexian, a famous actor in the troupe.
Since then, Xie Tao, who has a strong nature, has painstakingly practiced special skills and basic skills such as hat wings, haircutting, and hair throwing. Under the teacher's words and deeds, she showed Yang Liulang in "Three Passes and Points", Dong Xuan in "Crouching Tiger Order", Qi Xuanwang in "Qi Wang Rama" and other vivid characters in front of the audience. She also won many performance awards such as the Shanxi Provincial Revitalization Opera Youth Troupe Performance Gold Medal Award, the Shanxi Provincial Modern Opera Performance Gold Medal Award, and the Qin, Jin, and Yu "Golden Triangle" Opera Exchange Performance Outstanding Actor Award. Her position among the Jin opera Xusheng actors was also gradually recognized.
In 1996, she starred in the modern drama "Ding Guoxian", which was a key turning point for Xie Tao from Danjiao to Xusheng. Ding Guoxian is an outstanding performing artist with a high prestige in the theater industry. It is very difficult to play such a predecessor, but with her ability to control the role and performance experience, she has successfully shaped the life style of this senior performance artist, so that she won the "Wenhua Performance Award" of the Ministry of Culture and the Plum Blossom Award of Chinese Drama, and also laid her position in the performing arts industry of Jin opera.
"Fan Jin Zhongju" is another masterpiece of Xie Tao, starting from the rehearsal of this play, she carefully analyzed and pondered the role, repeatedly speculated on Fan Jin's inner world, and used her own feelings to understand the complex psychology of the characters at that time. In October 2005, "Fan Jin Zhongju" was unveiled at the 7th Shanghai International Arts Festival, xie Tao grafted the skills of Xiaosheng and clowns onto the character of Fan Jin, making his pedantic, stubborn, pitiful and lamentable image come to life, which was highly praised by many theater experts and audiences: "Xie Tao played Fan Jin". Xie Tao won the 16th Magnolia Opera Performing Arts Protagonist Award in Shanghai, China for his superb performance in "Fan Jin Zhongju", filling the gap of the "Magnolia" Award in Shanxi Province and Taiyuan City. In November 2007, Xie Tao participated in the 3rd Chinese Opera Festival jointly sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture and the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris with "Fan Jin Zhongju", which caused great repercussions in Paris, and she herself won the Best Actress Award.
In the same year, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Mr. Fu Shan's birth, Xie Tao starred in Fu Shan, who was frost-stained with two sideburns and dressed in a vermilion dress in "Fu Shan Entering Beijing", which is another vivid and vivid stage image created by Xie Tao, which fully demonstrates her deep understanding and accurate grasp of the psychological level of the characters, and her artistic ability to control the characters has matured day by day. As soon as the play was staged, it attracted widespread attention from domestic and foreign media, and has won many honors such as the China Opera Society Award (which is known as the highest academic award in the Chinese opera industry), the 10th China Drama Festival Outstanding Repertoire Award, the 1st Chinese Ethnic Minority Drama Performance Gold Award, the Shanxi Apricot Blossom Award and many other honors. In 2009, Xie Tao also won the 24th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award for the play again, becoming the first person to win the "Second Degree Plum" for jin opera actors. She and her "Fu Shan Jinjing" are famous in the three Jin Dynasties and are popular throughout most of China, and since then she has also established her position in the performing arts world of Jin opera. In 2010, Xie Tao brought Jin opera to Europe for the first time, allowing European audiences to understand China's Jin opera culture and being warmly welcomed by European audiences.
Xie Tao's representative repertoire includes "She's Rice", "Splitting Doors to Sell Paintings", "Crouching Tiger Order", "Killing Yi", "Breaking the Line", "Killing Wife", "Luhuahe", "Ding Guoxian", "Rotten Ke Shanxia", "Fan Jinzhongju", "Fu Shan Jinjing", "Yu Chenglong" and so on.