Wenzhou Opera Research Institute [China]

The Wenzhou Opera Research Institute (formerly the Wenzhou Ou Opera Troupe) was founded in 1959. In its early days, the troupe already built a huge and widespread following in the northern and southern regions of the Yangtze River with its repertory of Ou Opera classics such as Gao Ji and Wu Sanchun, Women Generals of the Yang Family etc. Later productions number close to one hundred, and cover both traditional and new repertories. The winning productions include Killing a Dog to Admonish Her Husband, Two Golden Seals, The Young Lady Named Qiu, Lu Bu and Diao Chan, The Story of the Jade Swallow, The Butterfly Cup, The Pearl Pagoda, Fifteen Strings of Cash, Purging of the Heart, When Oranges Are Ripe, Tale of the West Garden etc. Amongst them, The Killing Incident at the Tavern had won the New Repertory Award at the Wenhua Performance Awards presented by the Ministry of Culture, and Killing a Dog to Admonish Her Husband won The 3rd Prize of the National Showcase of Local Operas, while other plays have won Outstanding Performance Awards, Outstanding Repertory Awards etc. at the Zhejiang Opera Festival. In recent years, the troupe has given touring performances in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland etc. and everywhere it went, it had won critical acclaim.