Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe (Mainland China)
14/5｜Saturday｜3pm, 8pm
Mandarin's House
Tickets: MOP 150
Performers: Xu Yena, Li Xiaowen and Xie Chan
Excerpts:
A Stroll in the Garden and an Interrupted Dream
Finding a Portrait and Calling to the Portrait
A Romantic Encounter
Originating from Shengzhou, Zhejiang and later popularised in Shanghai, Yue Opera is now the second major opera genre in China. With its tender, elegant and nimble melodies, Yue Opera is inscribed on the First National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China. Established in 1984, Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe has gained international acclaim through its intense Jiangnan art ambience as well as its graceful and elegant performing style. The Troupe’s will certainly thrill fans of Yue Opera in Macao this time.
The Peony Pavilion is recognised as one of the Four Great Chinese Classical Dramas. Through dream and death, The Peony Pavilion narrates the entangled romance of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei, and is classified with Tang’s other three dream-based dramas, The Legend of the Purple Hairpin, Record of Handan and Record of Southern Bough as the Four Dreams of Linchuan.
As the most famous romantic play of Tang, The Peony Pavilion has been staged repeatedly over nearly four centuries and still enjoys unfading popularity among Yue opera lovers.
Performed in Shengzhou dialect (Zhejiang), with surtitles in Chinese.
Duration: approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes, no interval