Compiled from the Performing Arts programmes* and Visual Arts exhibition records from HKADC’s Arts Yearbooks and Annual Arts Survey projects dating from 2010.

Cantonese Opera Excerpt Performances

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Art Genres / Sub-categories

Cantonese Opera

Location

Ko Shan Theatre, New Wing Auditorium

Start Date

2017/05/06

End Date

2017/05/06

Art Genres / Sub-categories

Cantonese Opera

Location

Ko Shan Theatre, New Wing Auditorium

Start Date

2017/05/06

End Date

2017/05/06

Cantonese Opera Excerpt Performances

Description

Description

The prefecture Chan Gwai-sheung has always been hen-pecked, but one day while he is invited to hang out with his friend So Tung-po, he meets another lady, and gets engaged with her right away. His wife Lau Yuk-ngo is furious and beats Gwai-sheung with a rosewood stick and orders him to kneel and repent by a willowy pond. Flooding the Gold Mountain Temple from The Legend of the White Snake. Bai Suzhen, the white snake, falls in love with scholar Xu Xian. The two get married with Xiaoqing the green snake as their matchmaker. Monk Fahai traps Xu Xian at Jinshan Temple. Suzhen and Xiaoqing beg Fahai to release Xu Xian, but are subdued by celestial soldiers. Suzhen is determined to fight back and floods Jinshan Temple with water. Yet, she is not strong enough because she is pregnant…

Info

Admission

Free

Indoor / Outdoor

Indoor

Local / Non-local Production

Local

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