For the 2022 North American Pavilion Day, the producer Ke Zhihao was invited to plan the "Come to visit - Dear Stranger" event, and invited Chen Yu'an, a young opera student, and Xu Liying, a Peking Opera star, to participate.

(Provided by the North American Pavilion)

[Reporter Tu Yingru/Taipei Report] This weekend, the North American Pavilion celebrates the 39th anniversary of the establishment of the "North American Pavilion Day". On December 24, the entire museum will be open for free, and the new generation of music producers and dual-genre actors will be invited to participate in the show. The theme project "Come to visit - Dear Stranger" is held together with traditional Chinese opera and experimental expression techniques, and the daily scene of the art museum is loosened by sporadic mobile performances, and the audience is invited to visit the North American Pavilion to have a look at "Classic China" A contemporary interpretation of "Seeing New Ideas".

Gezai opera student Chen Yuan.

(Provided by Ke Zhihao Music Studio and North American Pavilion)

This year, the North American Pavilion cooperated with Ke Zhihao, a gold medal producer who is good at experimental creations with Taiwanese folk music. His music styles span classical, modern and electronic, and he is good at combining traditional operas to create amazing cross-border works.

Ke Zhihao and the North American Pavilion jointly created the project "Come to visit - Dear Stranger". Chuanyi Golden Melody Award for Best Rookie), Peking Opera Huadan Xu Liying (actor of the Youth Troupe of Guoguang Opera Troupe) starred in the performance.

The scene will combine huqin, percussion and other performance forms, not only to perform classic tunes and figures, but also to show the new possibility of the fusion and collision of the two traditional operas.

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Peking Opera Huadan Xu Liying.

(Provided by Ke Zhihao Music Studio and North American Pavilion)

In addition to the Peking opera aria, the performance also includes "Riding a White Horse", which is taken from the "Seven-character Tune" in Gezai Opera. The lyrics describe Xue Pinggui rushing back to Wujiapo after 18 years of separation from his first wife Wang Baochuan due to the war. On the way to the reunion, the wife dared not recognize each other suddenly, and wanted to test her, so she teased her with words, and the two sang together, which was especially brilliant.

After the reunion, the two people's familiar and unfamiliar feelings also echoed the multiple interactions and dialogues between the museum and the audience.

The North American Pavilion Day is expected to have 4 occasional mobile performances that are limited to the day. The performers will remove the restrictions of the front and back of the scene, wandering and traversing freely in the North American Pavilion, blurring the definitions and boundaries of fields, drama genres, roles, and performances. , and then deconstruct the public's established impressions of "exhibition viewing", "exhibition space", and "traditional opera".

From 14:00 to 17:30 on December 24, 2022, the show will be performed on the 1st and 2nd floors of the North American Pavilion.

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