Ko Shan Theatre｜Chinese Culture Festival 2025: Classics Revisited — Highlights of Peking Opera and "Kunqu"

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Chinese Culture Festival 2025: Classics Revisited —Highlights of Peking Opera and Kunqu

Classic Kunqu and Peking Opera, with their exciting dramas and fascinating aesthetics, have sustained through time and space to become cultural classics. The Jingkun Theatre, in collaboration with the Shandong Peking Opera Theatre and the Yantai Cultural and Arts Centre, has selected representative Peking Opera and Kunqu excerpts which cover a variety of performing styles. Besides appreciating the provocative interpretation of the shrewish You Sanjie, the heroic demeanour of Liu Jinding and the charming innocence of Chen Xiuying, audiences will be impressed by Mi Heng's uncompromised denouncement of Cao Cao, the affectionate love tale between Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei, and how Xu Shiying teams up with the heroes of Liangshan to capture Gao Deng. This operatic journey is a showcase of meticulously crafted characters performed with fascinating literary and martial arts skills!

22.8.2025 (Fri) 7:30pm

The Incident at Bright Sun Mansion and Feigning Drunk, Encounter on the Road, Receiving the Betrothal Gifts, Looking Forward to the Wedding, Withdrawal from the Engagement from You Sanjie

23.8.2025 (Sat) 7:30pm

The Teahouse from The Iron Bow Story, Liu Jinding Crashes Four Gates, Beating the Drum and Chastising Cao and Wandering in the Garden and The Interrupted Dream from The Peony Pavilion

Main Cast: Tang Yuen-ha, Cai Zhengren (Special Guest),

Li Chunyu, Sun Jialiang, Hu Yulong, Cheung Ching-man

The running time of each performance is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes including an intermission of 15 minutes.

Lyrics and dialogue with Chinese and English surtitles.