Presenter: Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre
Original Author: Hong Sheng (Qing Dynasty)
Lead Cast: Shi Hongmei

The opera sets the love story between Li Longji and his imperial concubine Yang Yuhuan in the background of "An Shi Rebellion" which marks the Tang Dynasty from being grand to gloomy. It initiates a magnificent Kunqu Opera with historical events, love of life and death, people's condition and livelihood intertwining with each other. It expresses the feeling of nation's rise and fall by romance between men and women.

Synopsis In the year 10 of Tianbao, at Qi Xi Festival (Chinese Valentine's Day) on July 7th on lunar calender, Li Longji (Emperor Tang Ming) and his imperial concubine Yang Yuhuan pledged to the Heaven in Palace of Eternity that they were willing to be couples forever. Li played with Yang all day long ignoring political affairs, which led An Lushan's rebellion. On the way to the middle of Shu (now in Sichuan province) when Li took Yang for refuge, the officers and soldiers shouted loudly that "if not kill concubine, we refuse to protect the emperor''. In desperation, Li granted his concubine to hang herself on the pear tree. After the rebellion calmed down, it was another year's Qiqiao Festival. Li Longji met Concubine Yang in his dream. But they were departed by life and death, so he missed his lover more and more.

Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre Founded in 1957, Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre is China's only state-level Kunqu Opera performing organization in the north of Yangtze River. During half a century of art transmission, a large number of outstanding performing artists of Kunqu Opera joined in its transmission in northern China.......

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