XIAO Yanqiu is Qingyi, a leading female role in Chinese opera, and she is also Chang E, a goddess beyond the ken of ordinary people. She stars in Chang E Flying to the Moon, enjoying popularity for a time, yet then subjected to criticism. At the pinnacle of her career, she is banished from the stage and assigned to a school, falling into utter desolation. After taking a sudden turn for the worse in her life, XIAO Yanqiu, who is aloof and proud, meets Miangua, an honest and law-abiding traffic policeman. They start a common life. As times goes by, her student Chunlai comes. XIAO Yanqiu sees her younger self, and she gives Chunlai all she has. But the god of destiny makes fools of her - a feast of desire almost brings her long-buried dream to its fulfillment. She longs to fly to the moon again in her remaining years to recapture the prime of her youth, but something unexpected occurs, making her mentally exhausted.
At last, on a snowy moonlit night, XIAO Yanqiu flies to the Moon Palace together with Chang E.
Creative
Presenter & Producer: Yabin Studio
Original Author: BI Feiyu
Dramaturg: PEI Yanling
Director/Choreographer: WANG Yabin
Director Group: FAN Lei
Opera Directors: WEI Chunrong, LI Haiyan, WANG Fang
Lighting Designer: Willy Cessa
Set Designer: Matt Deely
Costume Designer: Kimie Nakano
Composer: GUO Sida, Olga Wojciechowska
Playwright: ZHUANG Yi
Hair Style Designer: WANG Jia
Script Supervisor/Video Designer: Helene Guetary
Video Producers: ZHAO Jianwei, Micheal Dralle
Graphic Designer: Mumu
Sound Designer: SHAN Xiaolin
Set Supervisors: WANG Zhenyu, LIN Yanhua
Costume Supervisor: YUE Songshan
Lead Cast: WANG Yabin
The dance drama The Moon Opera has won awards and honourary titles including financial support from the China National Arts Fund in 2014 and 2016, a work commissioned for “Rising Artists' Works” by the China Shanghai International Festival, financial support from the Special Fund for the Department of Chinese Literature and Art, an important work for exchanges on the “25th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between China and Israel” by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, a work invited to the Budapest Spring Music Festival, a work invited to the CODA Oslo International Dance Festival, a work invited to the Pittsburgh International Premiere Festival, the best work to tour the Pittsburgh International Premiere Festival in 2018, a work invited to the Silk Road International Arts Festival, a work invited to the NCPA Dance Festival, and a work invited to the Ninth Wuzhen Theatre Festival.
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