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Kunqu Opera: Fifteen Strands of Coins
DanKunqu Opera: Fifteen Strands of Coins
ZhejiangKunqu Opera Troupe
Kunqu opera is one of China's oldest forms of traditional opera. In 2001, UNESCO added Kunqu opera to its list of "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity." The Zhejiang Kunqu Opera Troupe, established in 1955, staged a groundbreaking production of Fifteen Strands of
Coins in 1956, ushering in a resurgence of the art of Kunqu opera. The Zhejiang Kunqu Opera Troupe currently has over ninety professional Kunqu performers, including thirty-two National Class One performers. Five members of the troupe have received the Plum Blossom Award, China's highest honor for
achievement in Chinese theater. The repertory of the Zhejiang Kunqu Opera Troupe currently includes several hundred classic Kunqu opera pieces. The troupe has toured numerous times in Asia, the United States, and Europe, gaining extensive popular and critical recognition.
Contact Information:
Presenter: Zhejiang Kunqu Opera Troupe
Contact: Wu Ning
Telephone: 0571-8597-6290
Fax: 0571-8523-1784
Email: Wuning_77@hotmail.com
Address: No. 118, Shangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
Post Code: 310014
Introduction:
Butcher You Hulu borrows fifteen strands of coins, then misleads his stepdaughter Su Rongjuan into thinking that he obtained it by selling her as a servant. Unwilling to submit to a life of servitude, Su flees in the night to seek refuge with relatives. Gangster Lou A'shu breaks into You's home,
kills him, and makes off with the money. Itinerant merchant Xiong Youlan, coincidentally carrying fifteen strands of coins along with his goods, encounters Su Rongjuan on the road and they become traveling companions. Lou A'shu seizes the opportunity to frame Xiong and Su for You's murder and the
theft of his fifteen strands of coins, and they are thrown in jail. Without bothering to investigate, the lazy and arrogant county magistrate wrongly convicts Xiong and Su of the crime and sentences them to death. Just as the sentence is about to be carried out, Supervisor of Executions Kuang
Zhong discovers that the evidence against Xiong and Su is false. Staking his position on Xiong and Su's innocence, Kuang orders the execution to be halted while he reconsiders the case. Disguised as a civilian, he returns to the scene of the crime to discover the truth, and in the end brings the
real criminal to justice.
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