Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts - Theatre

Dates: September 19-20, 2017

About

In the late Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279), ZHANG Yuniang, a talented woman, was born in Songyang, Zhejiang, a remarkable place full of beautiful mountains and waters. With a great talent for poetry composition, she was lauded as a great poetess of the Song Dynasty as famous as LI Qingzhao, ZHU Shuzhen and WU Shuji. Although she stayed in her boudoir all day long, which was surrounded by tall buildings, her thoughts were with the nation and people all the time. As a person of high principle, she had a sharper sense of integrity than everybody else around. Her poems were incomparably superior. In her collection of works Blue Snow, the words were beautiful and elegant like gentle breeze and bright moonlight, yet the underlined meanings had magnificent power and a bold vision. It is worthy of being called a splendid classic of Chinese culture.

Unfortunately, Yuniang suffered a harsh life. Despite her sharp sense of integrity, she died at a young age. She was engaged to SHEN Quan before they were born, and they found each other congenial. However, their journey to love was just an illusory joy and came to a tragic end. What is love? It is something more precious than life itself.

Executive Presenters: Songyang County, Municipal Government of Songyang County, Zhejiang Yue Opera Troupe

Credits

Artistic Consultant: QIAN Facheng

Playwrights: BAO Chaozan, TAO Tiefu

Director: TAO Tiefu

Composer: LIU Jiankuan

Orchestrators: LIU Jiankuan, YANG Haoping

Set Designers: ZHAO Guoliang, ZHAO Yiqing

Lighting Designers: ZHOU Zhengping, PANG Ruhui

Costume Designer: LAN Ling

Makeup Designers: LAN Ling, ZHANG Jing

Prop Designer: YE Linbin

Sound Designer: ZHAO Ke

Percussion Designer: QIAN Ke

Deputy Director: ZHOU Yunjuan

Choreographers: JIANG Xinguang, TAO Bo

Lead Singer: WANG Binmei

Drummer, Conductor: QIAN Ke

Lead Huqin Player: ZHANG Ke’en

MIDI Producer: DONG Dong

Cast

ZHANG Yuniang: XIE Lili

SHEN Quan: WANG Shihan

ZHANG Mao: WANG Weijia

LIU: ZHANG Jing

Zi’e: GUO Min

Shuang’e: LIU Liying

Afu: WANG Chunyan

Xiaolong: JIN Lu

WU Tong: HE Weilun

Housekeeper: YAO Zhizheng