唱白臉

to play the role of the villain (idiom)

to sing / to call loudly / to chant

white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera

white face / face painting in Beijing opera etc

face / CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]