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Approximate 100 mins (Intermission excluded)About
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This dance drama was adapted from Zaju, a kind of Chinese traditional poetic drama, with a strong sense of Chinese classical dance style.
Credits
Artistic Director: Tao Chen
Chief Supervisors: Wei Yinjiu, Xu Liqiao, Zhang Yafeng, Xu Ning, Ma Jinhong
Chief Director: Li Shibo
Dance Director: Xu Ning
Playwright: Xu Rui
Composer: Luo Xiaojian
Set Designer: Liu Kedong
Lighting Designers: Huang Zhigao, Liu Hongtao
Costume Designer: Yang Donglin
Props Designer: Li Hongchao
Style Designers: Fang Xuling, Liu Chang
Choreographers: Jia Fei, Li Chao
Supervisor: Sun Mingdi
Set Executive Producers: Wang Xingang, Huang Zhigao
Rehearsal Production Supervisors: Yang Yi, Zhai Jieming
Stage Managers: Li Mingming, Cao Yang, Yao Wei
Assistant Directors: Zhu Yin, Wang Cong
Cast
Cheng Ying: Hu Yang, Yang Siyu, Zhu Wangbo
Tu Angu: Li Yang, Liu Bin
Cheng Ying's Wife: Yang Yi, Shi Xuehan, Zhang Shanshan, Gao Wenqian
The Orphan: Liu Limin, Dong Zhiming
Lady Zhuang: Tian Chengfei, Yu Yu
Military Counsellor: Xing Zhan
Zhao Shuo: Meng Xing
At a seemingly never-ending night, Zhao Family is brutally massacred by a traitor Tu Angu. Lady Zhuang commits a newborn of Zhao Family to Cheng Ying’s care, who is a hanger-on of Zhao Family. Cheng Ying exchanges city-wide babies’ lives and Orphan of Zhao Family at the expense of his son. Cheng Ying and Orphan of Zhao Family shamefully seek refuge with Tu Angu. For 16 years, Cheng Ying endures humiliation and pain, and lets Orphan of Zhao Family take the foe to his father. When Orphan of Zhao Family grows up, Cheng Ying decides to reveal the truth to Orphan of Zhao Family. At coming-of-age ceremony of Orphan of Zhao Family, Cheng Ying intends to assassinate Tu Angu, but he is accidentally captured together with Orphan of Zhao Family. Between life and death, Tu Angu unmasks and wants to kill both of them. Cheng Ying blocks the sword towards Orphan of Zhao Family with his body...
China Opera and Dance Drama Theatre is a national-level theatre affiliated to the Ministry of Culture. It is all-inclusive in artistic categories. It consists of Opera Troupe, Dance Troupe, National Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra, Creation Studio and complete Stage Art Production Department.
It converges a large group of famous performing artists such as Guo Lanying, Zhao Qing and Chen Ailian, as well as many popular middle-aged and young artists springing up in recent years. Over the past five decades since its inception, it rehearses and performs nearly 100 well-known operas and dance dramas, such as operas The White-haired Girl, Injustice to Dou E and Savage Land and dance dramas A Dream of Red Mansions, Dancing Girl of Tongque Platform and Shadow of Fence Wall. In recent years, it is committed to creating and performing musical dramas, and launches a batch of excellent repertoires such as Hua Mulan. It perfectly undertakes many creation and performance tasks, such as large-scale musical dance epic The East Is Red, the Asian Games, International Arts Festival, International Choral Festival and the reception of foreign heads of state including the Former US President Bill Clinton's visiting China.
Box officeNorth Gate of NCPA, No. 2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng District, Beijing, China
Tickets collection hours9:30-19:30 (CST) on performance day
9:30-18:00 (CST) for days without performance
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Booking hours9:30-18:00 (CST) Monday to Friday
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Dedicated to the staging of epic operas, ballets and dance dramas, the golden Opera House is considered the centerpiece of the NCPA. Its main tone is golden color, which looks glamorous and splendid. In the auditorium are the stalls and three higher levels of balconies, which can seat an audience of 2,207, including the venue of SRO. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/backward/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can slant, and a rising orchestra pit for the triple winds orchestra. All the cutting-edge staging mechanism provides artists with enormous possibilities of creative performance.
Dedicated to the staging of epic operas, ballets and dance dramas, the golden Opera House is considered the centerpiece of the NCPA. Its main tone is golden color, which looks glamorous and splendid. In the auditorium are the stalls and three higher levels of balconies, which can seat an audience of 2,207, including the venue of SRO. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/backward/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can slant, and a rising orchestra pit for the triple winds orchestra. All the cutting-edge staging mechanism provides artists with enormous possibilities of creative performance.