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A Chinese-language opera based on Cao Yu’s play Thunderstorm and set in 1930s Shanghai.
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A Chinese-language opera based on Cao Yu’s play Thunderstorm and set in 1930s Shanghai.
In Shanghai, Chen Bailu—a student who became a courtesan—lives in a luxury hotel supported by a wealthy banker. People from bankers and clerks to students, workers, prostitutes and underworld figures revolve around her. When her benefactor faces bankruptcy, Chen takes her own life; the play depicts a society marked by exploitation and suffering.
Jin Xiang’s Chinese contemporary opera adapts Cao Yu’s 1936 play Sunrise, with a libretto by the playwright’s daughter, Wan Fang.
The opera is based on Cao Yu’s play The Wilderness, set in rural China; the source does not provide a plot synopsis.
An expressionist tragedy set in a forest, relating a succession of murders and stories of revenge with supernatural and fantastical elements.
In the Zhou household, the patriarch’s past relationships and abuse of power entangle two half-siblings, Zhou Ping and Sifeng, in an unwitting romance. As family secrets emerge amid labor conflict and strained relationships, the revelation of their kinship leads to a series of deaths.
A Chinese-language opera based on Cao Yu’s play Thunderstorm and set in 1930s Shanghai.
In Shanghai, Chen Bailu—a student who became a courtesan—lives in a luxury hotel supported by a wealthy banker. People from bankers and clerks to students, workers, prostitutes and underworld figures revolve around her. When her benefactor faces bankruptcy, Chen takes her own life; the play depicts a society marked by exploitation and suffering.
Jin Xiang’s Chinese contemporary opera adapts Cao Yu’s 1936 play Sunrise, with a libretto by the playwright’s daughter, Wan Fang.
The opera is based on Cao Yu’s play The Wilderness, set in rural China; the source does not provide a plot synopsis.
An expressionist tragedy set in a forest, relating a succession of murders and stories of revenge with supernatural and fantastical elements.
In the Zhou household, the patriarch’s past relationships and abuse of power entangle two half-siblings, Zhou Ping and Sifeng, in an unwitting romance. As family secrets emerge amid labor conflict and strained relationships, the revelation of their kinship leads to a series of deaths.