Flaming Mountain - Shaoxing Opera, New Version

Wanping Theatre, Grand Theatre, Shanghai, China

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Type: Opera Chinese

City: Shanghai, China

Starts at: 19:15

Duration:

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Overview

A new staging of a Shaoxing Monkey King classic: Sun Wukong's quest for the magic plantain fan that will put out the Flaming Mountain.

Flaming Mountain is one of the best-known Monkey King plays of Shaoxing opera, and its stage art distils the essence of the genre. Adapted from chapters 59 to 61 of Journey to the West, it follows the pilgrims to a mountain of fire that only Princess Iron Fan's plantain fan can put out. She refuses, Sun Wukong returns with a false fan, and he then disguises himself as the Bull Demon King to win the real one.

The new version was created after the play was selected for the 2023 central funding for the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and honours the 100th birth anniversary of the Shaoxing opera master Liulingtong. The cast is led by Zhao Peng as Sun Wukong, with Ying Linfeng, Zhu Danxian, Luo Jiqiang, Ye Jing and Yu Zhenyang.

Cast (names transliterated)

Zhao Peng - Sun Wukong; Ying Linfeng - Tang Seng; Zhu Danxian - Zhu Bajie; Luo Jiqiang - Sha Seng; Ye Jing - Princess Iron Fan; Yu Zhenyang - Bull Demon King; Dong Kailin, Ding Lintao and Zhang Yuwei in further roles. Adapted and directed by Zhang Jie; music by Chen Guangliang.

Venue Info

Wanping Theatre - Shanghai
857-859 Zhongshan South 2nd Road (at Wanping South Road), Xuhui District, Shanghai (上海市徐汇区中山南二路857-859号)

Wanping Theatre is a Chinese opera theatre in Xuhui District, at the corner of Zhongshan South 2nd Road and Wanping South Road, with a large hall of 996 seats and a small hall of 262 seats.

Wanping Theatre in Xuhui District, Shanghai, is a theatre for Chinese opera that belongs to the Shanghai Center of Chinese Operas together with the Changjiang Theater. The renovated building, with three times the former floor area, reopened in 2021. It has a large theatre, a small theatre, a multi-purpose exhibition hall of about 300 square meters, a screening hall and rehearsal rooms.

Important Info

Type: Opera Chinese

City: Shanghai, China

Starts at: 19:15

Duration: