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Over 60 young performers aged between five and 17 from the Zhanjiang Xiao Kong Que Cantonese Opera Troupe and Emily Music Forum of Hong Kong will present "The Little Stars of Cantonese Opera and Operatic Songs" in early August, featuring two nights of Cantonese operatic art performances.
The Zhanjiang Xiao Kong Que Cantonese Opera Troupe will kick off the show with one solid hour of two martial arts opera excerpts: "Yang Paifeng Beating Jiao Zan" features young heroine Yang beating Marshall Jiao through clever fighting strategies; and "Yandang Hill" tells the story of peasant army battling fiercely with the royal troop. They will also perform operatic singing "See Jing Ke Off the Yi River", the song of farewell of Jing Ke before setting off to assassinate the Emperor of Qin.
The Emily Music Forum of Hong Kong will soothe the audiences with melodious operatic singings including "Wang Zhaojun Goes Beyond the Great Wall", "King Chu Bids Farewell to His Concubine", "Making a Poem in Seven Steps" and "Cleaving Open the Mountain", etc. Come and enjoy two streams of Cantonese operatic art in one evening - a treat for you and your children.
"The Little Stars of Cantonese Opera and Operatic Songs", one of the programmes of the summer arts festival "International Arts Carnival" (IAC) will be staged on August 3 at 7.30 pm at Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, and on August 4 at 7.30 pm at Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium. The programmes will be conducted in Cantonese with Chinese surtitles and English synopsis.
Tickets priced between $80 and $180 are available from all URBTIX outlets with half-priced tickets for full-time students, senior citizens, people with disabilities and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Recipients. Package discounts are up to 15 percent for IAC performing arts programmes/films.
Telephone reservations can be made on 27349009; credit card telephone booking on 21115999. Internet booking can be made through the website: www.urbtix.gov.hk
Programme enquiries can be made on 2370 1044, or browse through the web-site www.hkiac.gov.hk
End/Saturday, July 13, 2002
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