Guoguang Troupe "Who Is the Hero?"

"for 3 days in a row with different scripts, Huang Yulin, the queen of Peking Opera, will collaborate with Wen Yuhang in "Princess Hundred Flowers".

(Photo by reporter Ling Meixue)

[Reporter Ling Meixue/Taipei Report] The Taiwan Opera Center's annual large-scale brand theater exhibition "2023 Taiwan Opera Art Festival" will debut on April 6, bringing together 12 groups of opera and cross-border teams to perform relay performances until May 28. With the theme of "Heroes‧Time and Space", the audience is invited to discuss operas at "Zhishan" where the Xiqu Center is located.

Tomorrow Hehe Productions produced the first immersive cross-field performance "Hehe Dream" for the Taiwan Opera Arts Festival.

(Photo by reporter Ling Meixue)

The curator, Zhang Qifeng, associate professor of Beijing University of Arts, said that traditional operas are full of heroes from all walks of life. He hopes that through the perspective of "super time and space", the masters of traditional operas can be seen again on the contemporary stage; The performances of traditional and cross-border opera programs portray a different face of "heroes" in the past.

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For the first time this year, the double flagship production of hall plus small hall is launched. The flagship of the large performance hall is a collaboration between Xiuqin Opera Troupe and Ruan Opera Troupe. Based on the history of Dongning Dynasty, it is reinterpreted by senior theater director Wang Youhui from a female perspective. The three giants of Xiuqin Opera Troupe Zhang Xiuqin, Zhuang Jinmei, Mi Xue, and the gold award-winning combination Zhang Mengyi and Gu Yifan jointly performed the epic flagship masterpiece "Phoenix Transformation"; the flagship of the small performance hall presented a new creation "壵" (pronounced with the same sound) by the Zhenhappy Palm Troupe, breaking the performance of the performers The theater form is opposed to the audience. From the three perspectives of performers, puppets, and audiences, a wonderful story of "before the stage" and "behind the stage" is constructed.

It is worth mentioning that the immersive cross-field production "Hehe Dream" was launched for the first time. Tomorrow Hehe Productions will guide the audience to travel through the past and the present, and wander around the Taiwan Opera Center, creating an opera performance experience that is different from the past. The most experimental breakthrough ever.

This time, various troupes tried to launch dramas related to the theme of heroes, such as Rongxing Hakka Tea Picking Troupe "Youth Heroes"; "Hunting Plague Remnants" raises sensitive questions about people's conscience and values ​​in the post-epidemic era; Guoguang Troupe inquires about "Who is the Hero?"

"; the Taiwan Chinese Orchestra and the cooperative combined Chinese music and new circuses to travel back in time and space to Dadaocheng a hundred years ago; Taiwan Henan Opera Troupe Liu Jianwoo created a new Henan opera "The Dart" and created "hero stories" with their own flavors.

For details, please refer to the official website of the Taiwan Opera Center, or the OPENTIX ticketing system.

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