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Presenter: Tianjin Youth Peking Opera Troupe
Lead cast: Yan Wei, Shang Yankang, Meng Guanglu, Kang Jian, Ma Liansheng, Shi Xiaoliang and Yang Guang, etc.
Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts-Theatre
Dates: March 06, 2009    19:30
Price:  VIP    280    200    160    120    80 RMB

Programme Introduction

Synopsis
Sizhou Town
The succubae jellyfish entrenched in Sizhou Town often stirred up trouble and unrest, Monkey King led a heavenly troop to have a battle with the succubae jellyfish and defeated her at last.

Five Dragons Subdued
At the end of Sui Dynasty, Wang Shiyun lost several battles against Li Shimin, Prince of Qin. After Luoyang was besieged, Shan Xiongxin invaded the campus of Tang alone, but caught by Weichi Gong. Shan refused to surrender after Li’s persuasion, and then was sent to the execution ground. Before his death, Shan’s old friends known at Wagang such as Xu Maogong, Luo Cheng and Cheng Yaojin all went to the execution ground to offer sacrifice to him. In the end, Shan was beheaded completely at ease.

Triple Stealing of the Nine-dragon Cup
It happened in the Qing Dynasty. Kangxi Emperor’s nine-dragon cup were stolen away, he ordered Huang Santai to arrest the thief. Huang Santai gave a banquet for his birthday and invited many heroes to attend it. In the banquet Yang Xiangwu told the course of stealing and losing the nine-dragon-cups. Hardened thief Wang Boyan was told the nine-dragon-cups were in Zhou Yinglong’s home. Yang Xiangwu went to Zhou’s residence to ask for the lost nine-dragon-cups, yet Zhou Yinglong refused, so Yang and Zhou had a fight. Later Yang Xiangwu and Wang Boyan thought of a way to steal the nine-dragon-cups back.

Tianjin Youth Peking Opera Troupe
Tianjin Youth Peking Opera Troupe was established in 1984, an art group with a powerful line-up of performers full of green vigor and an optimized structure of talents as well. Since its founding it has been paid attention to by the leaders of all levels. Guided by the idea “inheriting first and then developing” and “with an eye to bringing up young and mid-aged performers, and bring into full play the old artists’ roles of guiding, helping and teaching” put forward by Comrade Li Ruihuan, former chairman of CPPCC, this troupe always tries its best to bring up young performers, and many of them have become famous Peking Opera artists. This troupe has over twenty first-class national performers or players, who have won Peony Award for Chinese Dramas, prize for performance of Lotus Award, gold award of Mei Lanfang Prize for Chinese Dramas, prize for excellent performing of China TV Peking Opera Match, and the title of “The Star of Peking Opera Art”.

In the past national opera performance or major competitions, Tianjin Youth Peking Opera Troupe has won many kinds of collective and individual awards. In the first to the fourth China Peking Opera Art Festival (held respectively in 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004), Qin Xianglian and Romance of the Western Chamber of this trope were both warded prize for demonstrating performance, Gold, Broken, Thunder won Creative prize for excellent repertoire and honorary award for adaptation, Hatred of the Palace of the Chu Kingdom won four kinds of prizes such as Creative prize for excellent repertoire and honorary award for playwright. Besides, some plays such as A Silk Gown, Cao Cao and His Sons, Yue Fei respectively won prize for excellent play by young performers and Wenhua Prize for excellent plays awarded by the state ministry of culture. In 2005 this trope was rewarded the title as one of “The Major Peking Opera Troupes in China”.

In the past twenty years, the troupe’s footprint can be found all over China, including Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and had visiting performances in Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Costarica and other countries.

(Source: ebeijing.gov.cn)