- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 150 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
- The program will be filmed on March 13th.
- Age guidance 12+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- 10% off additional ticket purchase for Weiwuying Unlimited member
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company - At Aranya Temple
Mirror/Encounter・Forbidden/Desire・Aranya Temple
In Aranya Temple, deep in the mountain woodlands, lives an evil tree spirit that has lived for thousands of years. Formless and bodiless, the spirit emits menacing chi, causing travelers that breathe it in to hallucinate. Such hallucinations reveal the heart's desire, which the evil tree spirit takes advantage of to delude the travelers, sucking away their vital essences so as to increase its own cultivation. Demon slayer YAN Chi-xia practiced Daoism since a young age; with a clean heart without any desires or wishes, he entered the temple with intent to slay evil spirits and demons. On the other hand, scholar NING Cai-chen had lost his way in the mountains, wandering into the temple and meeting NIE Xiao-qian, a spirit serving under the evil tree spirit. Having developed a fondness for NING Cai-chen, NIE Xiao-qian persuaded him to seek refuge with the demon slayer YAN Chi-xia, for if he could spend the night with YAN Chi-xia, he might be able to conceal himself from the clutches of the evil tree spirit, after which he could leave the temple as rapidly as possible at the following daybreak. That night, the menacing chi filled the temple. Although Xiao-qian was worried for Cai-chen, when Cai-chen breathed in the evil spirit's chi, his heart's desire was revealed to be YAN Chi-xia. Besides feeling crushed, she was also coerced by the tree spirit to shapeshift into YAN Chi-xia in order to seduce NING Cai-chen. Meanwhile, YAN Chi-xia had also breathed in the menacing chi, revealing his deepest secrets and stirring up his forbidden desire. YAN Chi-xia had been the hope of the two of them, yet he himself was now deeply at a loss…… Before daybreak, how can they free themselves, and escape from the haunting mists of desire?
Pre-talk
2022/3/12(Sat)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
2022/3/13(Sun)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
Creative and Production Team
Actors｜HSIAO Yang-ling; LIU Jian-hua; ZHANG Xuan-ting
Original Author｜PU Song-ling
Script Writer｜LIU Jian-guo
Director of the Original Opera｜YANG Shi-ping
Director of the Refined Version｜YIN Qing-quan
Music Design and Arrangement｜ZHANG Ting-ying
Music Editor｜LIN Li-qiu
Stage/Multi-media Design｜WANG Yi-sheng
Costume Design｜LIN Heng-zheng
Choreographer｜ZHANG Yu-hua
Lighting Design｜YANG Bing-ru
Artists Introduction
HSIAO Yang-ling│As NING Cai-chen
HSIAO is the principal performer Hua Dan of the Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company, one of the 5th generation students at the Marine Corps Pegasus Bangzi Opera Troupe, and a Master of Performing Arts at the National Kaohsiung Normal University; she was previously a student of ZHANG Xiu-yun and WANG Hai-ling, majoring in Hua Dan and Qingyi. She has won the Chinese 2007 11th Xian Yu Cup Arts Awards, the Star of Formosa Award as a top 10 actress in the 2010 and 2012 Henan Opera actress rankings, and was nominated for "Best Actress of the Year" at the 2016 Traditional Arts Golden Melody Awards. HSIAO has participated in experimental dramas, stage plays, Taiwanese opera, and multiple other performances across different fields and has also served as a dance and vocal instructor at the Taiwan College of Performing Arts, the director for Chun-Mei Opera Troupe's "Love Conquers All", the dance instructor for "Wang Kui Betrays Gui-Ying" from the Tainaner Ensemble's "Q&A" series, the dance instructor at the Kaohsiung Performing Arts Ensemble, and more. HSIAO is known for her beautiful and elegant appearance, pure and clean voice, and steady stage presence. Her recent works include: Henan operas "At Aranya Temple", "Wings of Horses", "The Romance of the Embroidered Sachet", "Turandot", etc; experimental drama "Test the Wife! Murder the Wife!"; stage play "The Golden Lion Without Ears"; Taiwanese opera "Dream of the Red Chamber Variations"; and experimental drama "Existential Feelings".
LIU Jian-hua│As YAN Chi-xia
LIU received a master's degree from the Department of Drama Creation and Application at the National Tainan University and is a part-time assistant professor at the Kaohsiung Normal University. In 2011, she was awarded the Star of Formosa Award as a top 10 actress in the Henan Opera actress ranking. Born into a traditional opera household, LIU has been a traditional opera aficionado since youth, forming the Henan Opera Club when she studied at the Kaohsiung Girl's High School, and entering YANG Li-hua Taiwanese Opera Troupe as a third-generation art student in 2001, where she received tutelage from Ms. YANG Li-hua. In 2005, she entered Bangzi Opera Company and gradually started to stand out through delivering exceptional performances － in 2007, she was entrusted the position of Emperor Guangxu in the annual show "Empress Dowager Cixi and Imperial Consort Zhen", showing an impressive performance in her first show and receiving favorable ratings from young audiences, who nicknamed her "Prince of Henan opera". Her recent works include: "Meilong Town", "Under Red Plum Blossom", "At Aranya Temple", "Wings of Horses", "Turandot", and "Empress Wu Casts the Golden Slip". She also starred in ChiChiao Musical Theatre's "The Policeman Chalk Circle", "Roseman", "Oh My Buddha! Oh My God!", "Kurama Tengu", "The Butterfly Effect" and more, demonstrating exceptional performances in all of the above.
ZHANG Xuan-ting│As NIE Xiao-qian
ZHANG graduated from the Department of Chinese Opera at the National Taiwan Academy of Arts, majoring in both Qingyi and Hua Dan. At the academy, she received the tutelage of QING Hui-fen, MA Shu-shen, BI Zheng-lin, and LIU Ming-bao. Her voice is warm and mellow, giving her a unique style; she is able to interpret each role freely, with her exquisite portrayals leaving strong impressions on audiences. Her representative works include "Down the Mountain" MU Gui-Ying, "Picking Up the Jade Bracelet" SUN Yu-Jiao, "How Third Madam Educated Her Son" First Mother, "Wang Yue-Ying Wreaks Havoc in the Palace" WANG Yue-Ying, "Fighting with Tao San-Chun Three Times" TAO San-Chun, and "The Big-foot Empress" Empress MA. In 2012, she performed alongside the number one Bangzi Opera Chou performer JIN Bu-Huan of Hebi City's Bangzi Opera Troupe in "The Level Seven Junior Officer", in which she played the vicious and merciless lady and rivaled JIN in performance, with the two starring in many opposing scenes. Recently, she starred in "Universe Front", "Questioning Heaven", "At Aranya Temple", "Wang Yue-Ying Beating Cheng Yao-Jin", "Guan－Yin", and "Empress Wu Casts the Golden Slip".
Team Introduction
About Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company
Bangzi Opera presents the characteristics of the sincerity, passion and boldness of Northern China. The Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company was established in Zuoying, Kaohsiung over sixty years ago. Led by Wang Hai-ling, the Empress of Taiwan Bangzi Opera, and the fresh blooms of the younger generation of performers, the Company constantly strives forward in the creation of new works, blending in local arts and culture and synthesizing a uniquely Taiwanese form of Bangzi Opera. Every year, the Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company mounts a new production, bringing elite artists of the modern theater together in interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration. The Company also vigorously pursues its educational mission, promoting Bangzi Opera at home and abroad to wide. Such endeavors have won the recognitions of the Mainland Affairs Council to grant the Outstanding Award for Cross-strait Cultural Exchange in five successive years since 2002.
Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company's recent works of the performance include : "Spring on Plum Mountain", "Under Red Plum Blossom", "At Aranya Temple", "Wings of Horses", "Turando", "Guan－Yin", "Empress Wu Casts the Golden Slip", "The Emperor's Regalia", "Test the Wife! Murder the Wife!". The piece of "Empress Dowager Cixi and Consort Zhen" won the prize of the Best Production of Traditional Theater in the Golden Bell Award in 2008 and the piece of "The Sorceress Bride" won the prize of Top 10 Performing Arts Program in the TaiShin Arts Award in 2011.
Presented by Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company, National Center for Traditional Arts
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Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company - At Aranya Temple
Mirror/Encounter・Forbidden/Desire・Aranya Temple
In Aranya Temple, deep in the mountain woodlands, lives an evil tree spirit that has lived for thousands of years. Formless and bodiless, the spirit emits menacing chi, causing travelers that breathe it in to hallucinate. Such hallucinations reveal the heart's desire, which the evil tree spirit takes advantage of to delude the travelers, sucking away their vital essences so as to increase its own cultivation. Demon slayer YAN Chi-xia practiced Daoism since a young age; with a clean heart without any desires or wishes, he entered the temple with intent to slay evil spirits and demons. On the other hand, scholar NING Cai-chen had lost his way in the mountains, wandering into the temple and meeting NIE Xiao-qian, a spirit serving under the evil tree spirit. Having developed a fondness for NING Cai-chen, NIE Xiao-qian persuaded him to seek refuge with the demon slayer YAN Chi-xia, for if he could spend the night with YAN Chi-xia, he might be able to conceal himself from the clutches of the evil tree spirit, after which he could leave the temple as rapidly as possible at the following daybreak. That night, the menacing chi filled the temple. Although Xiao-qian was worried for Cai-chen, when Cai-chen breathed in the evil spirit's chi, his heart's desire was revealed to be YAN Chi-xia. Besides feeling crushed, she was also coerced by the tree spirit to shapeshift into YAN Chi-xia in order to seduce NING Cai-chen. Meanwhile, YAN Chi-xia had also breathed in the menacing chi, revealing his deepest secrets and stirring up his forbidden desire. YAN Chi-xia had been the hope of the two of them, yet he himself was now deeply at a loss…… Before daybreak, how can they free themselves, and escape from the haunting mists of desire?
Pre-talk
2022/3/12(Sat)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
2022/3/13(Sun)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
Creative and Production Team
Actors｜HSIAO Yang-ling; LIU Jian-hua; ZHANG Xuan-ting
Original Author｜PU Song-ling
Script Writer｜LIU Jian-guo
Director of the Original Opera｜YANG Shi-ping
Director of the Refined Version｜YIN Qing-quan
Music Design and Arrangement｜ZHANG Ting-ying
Music Editor｜LIN Li-qiu
Stage/Multi-media Design｜WANG Yi-sheng
Costume Design｜LIN Heng-zheng
Choreographer｜ZHANG Yu-hua
Lighting Design｜YANG Bing-ru
Artists Introduction
HSIAO Yang-ling│As NING Cai-chen
HSIAO is the principal performer Hua Dan of the Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company, one of the 5th generation students at the Marine Corps Pegasus Bangzi Opera Troupe, and a Master of Performing Arts at the National Kaohsiung Normal University; she was previously a student of ZHANG Xiu-yun and WANG Hai-ling, majoring in Hua Dan and Qingyi. She has won the Chinese 2007 11th Xian Yu Cup Arts Awards, the Star of Formosa Award as a top 10 actress in the 2010 and 2012 Henan Opera actress rankings, and was nominated for "Best Actress of the Year" at the 2016 Traditional Arts Golden Melody Awards. HSIAO has participated in experimental dramas, stage plays, Taiwanese opera, and multiple other performances across different fields and has also served as a dance and vocal instructor at the Taiwan College of Performing Arts, the director for Chun-Mei Opera Troupe's "Love Conquers All", the dance instructor for "Wang Kui Betrays Gui-Ying" from the Tainaner Ensemble's "Q&A" series, the dance instructor at the Kaohsiung Performing Arts Ensemble, and more. HSIAO is known for her beautiful and elegant appearance, pure and clean voice, and steady stage presence. Her recent works include: Henan operas "At Aranya Temple", "Wings of Horses", "The Romance of the Embroidered Sachet", "Turandot", etc; experimental drama "Test the Wife! Murder the Wife!"; stage play "The Golden Lion Without Ears"; Taiwanese opera "Dream of the Red Chamber Variations"; and experimental drama "Existential Feelings".
LIU Jian-hua│As YAN Chi-xia
LIU received a master's degree from the Department of Drama Creation and Application at the National Tainan University and is a part-time assistant professor at the Kaohsiung Normal University. In 2011, she was awarded the Star of Formosa Award as a top 10 actress in the Henan Opera actress ranking. Born into a traditional opera household, LIU has been a traditional opera aficionado since youth, forming the Henan Opera Club when she studied at the Kaohsiung Girl's High School, and entering YANG Li-hua Taiwanese Opera Troupe as a third-generation art student in 2001, where she received tutelage from Ms. YANG Li-hua. In 2005, she entered Bangzi Opera Company and gradually started to stand out through delivering exceptional performances － in 2007, she was entrusted the position of Emperor Guangxu in the annual show "Empress Dowager Cixi and Imperial Consort Zhen", showing an impressive performance in her first show and receiving favorable ratings from young audiences, who nicknamed her "Prince of Henan opera". Her recent works include: "Meilong Town", "Under Red Plum Blossom", "At Aranya Temple", "Wings of Horses", "Turandot", and "Empress Wu Casts the Golden Slip". She also starred in ChiChiao Musical Theatre's "The Policeman Chalk Circle", "Roseman", "Oh My Buddha! Oh My God!", "Kurama Tengu", "The Butterfly Effect" and more, demonstrating exceptional performances in all of the above.
ZHANG Xuan-ting│As NIE Xiao-qian
ZHANG graduated from the Department of Chinese Opera at the National Taiwan Academy of Arts, majoring in both Qingyi and Hua Dan. At the academy, she received the tutelage of QING Hui-fen, MA Shu-shen, BI Zheng-lin, and LIU Ming-bao. Her voice is warm and mellow, giving her a unique style; she is able to interpret each role freely, with her exquisite portrayals leaving strong impressions on audiences. Her representative works include "Down the Mountain" MU Gui-Ying, "Picking Up the Jade Bracelet" SUN Yu-Jiao, "How Third Madam Educated Her Son" First Mother, "Wang Yue-Ying Wreaks Havoc in the Palace" WANG Yue-Ying, "Fighting with Tao San-Chun Three Times" TAO San-Chun, and "The Big-foot Empress" Empress MA. In 2012, she performed alongside the number one Bangzi Opera Chou performer JIN Bu-Huan of Hebi City's Bangzi Opera Troupe in "The Level Seven Junior Officer", in which she played the vicious and merciless lady and rivaled JIN in performance, with the two starring in many opposing scenes. Recently, she starred in "Universe Front", "Questioning Heaven", "At Aranya Temple", "Wang Yue-Ying Beating Cheng Yao-Jin", "Guan－Yin", and "Empress Wu Casts the Golden Slip".
Team Introduction
About Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company
Bangzi Opera presents the characteristics of the sincerity, passion and boldness of Northern China. The Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company was established in Zuoying, Kaohsiung over sixty years ago. Led by Wang Hai-ling, the Empress of Taiwan Bangzi Opera, and the fresh blooms of the younger generation of performers, the Company constantly strives forward in the creation of new works, blending in local arts and culture and synthesizing a uniquely Taiwanese form of Bangzi Opera. Every year, the Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company mounts a new production, bringing elite artists of the modern theater together in interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration. The Company also vigorously pursues its educational mission, promoting Bangzi Opera at home and abroad to wide. Such endeavors have won the recognitions of the Mainland Affairs Council to grant the Outstanding Award for Cross-strait Cultural Exchange in five successive years since 2002.
Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company's recent works of the performance include : "Spring on Plum Mountain", "Under Red Plum Blossom", "At Aranya Temple", "Wings of Horses", "Turando", "Guan－Yin", "Empress Wu Casts the Golden Slip", "The Emperor's Regalia", "Test the Wife! Murder the Wife!". The piece of "Empress Dowager Cixi and Consort Zhen" won the prize of the Best Production of Traditional Theater in the Golden Bell Award in 2008 and the piece of "The Sorceress Bride" won the prize of Top 10 Performing Arts Program in the TaiShin Arts Award in 2011.
Presented by Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company, National Center for Traditional Arts
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- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 150 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
- The program will be filmed on March 13th.
- Age guidance 12+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- 10% off additional ticket purchase for Weiwuying Unlimited member
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
