


Decades of meticulous study of the MEI School’s art makes her excellent in playing Drunken Concubine, Farewell to My Concubine, MU Guiying Takes Command and Regrets of Life and Death. MEI Baojiu, becoming the third-generation first disciple of the “MEI School”. She grew up in Taiwan and studied under her predecessors including QIN Huifen, ZHOU Mingxin, BAO Youdie, CHEN Yongling and TONG Zhiling. WEI Haimin is a Peking Opera artist and a guest professor at the Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Since it came out, the opera has held the stage firmly as the most popular piece in the traditional repertoire of Peking Opera.Įmpress Dowager Xiao: SHANG Huimin (Guest) The performance of this opera calls for a variety of role players, who need to sing a wide array of classic arias. Princess Tiejing intercedes on his behalf, getting him released. Unfortunately, he gets arrested by Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Dynasty, and sentenced to death. Then with the token, he sneaks into the military camp of the Song Dynasty to see his mother. 15 years later, learning that his mother Dowager SHE is in the frontier area, YANG tells the princess the truth and begs her to steal a token of authority for him. Renaming himself MU Yi, he gets married with Princess Tiejing. In the Northern Song Dynasty, YANG Yanhui, the fourth son of the YANG Family, is captured during the Liao-Song war.
