Chinese Opera Film Shows

Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Space Museum

To coincide with the approach of fusing East and West in Cyrano de Bergerac – A Cantonese Opera Interpretation, the Chinese Opera Film Shows will present a series of Cantonese operatic song films adapted from Western films or classics, so that Chinese opera fans can appreciate the new audio-visual experiences created by Cantonese cinema appropriating Western elements.

10/8 (SAT) 7:45pm
Bitter Phoenix, Sorrowful Oriole (1947) +

24/8 (SAT) 7:45pm
Prince of Thieves (1958) ^

31/8 (SAT) 7:45pm
The White Gold Dragon, Part Two (aka The Platinum Dragon, Part Two) (1937) +

7/9 (SAT) 7:45pm
My Kingdom for a Husband (1957) ^

14/9 (SAT) 7:45pm
Madam Butterfly (1954) ^

^Lyrics with Traditional Chinese subtitles
+Courtesy of Mr Jack Lee Fong of Palace Theatre, San Francisco, USA
Courtesy of Hong Kong Film Archive

Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive

The Chinese Opera Festival keeps digging out treasures from the vast ocean of Chinese opera films. Apart from films on the Shanghai-style and Qi School of Peking Opera, which will be the focus of the film shows, films about the Monkey King, Bony Demon and Mu Guiying will also be featured.

7/8 (WED) 7:30pm
Wu Song (1963) #

14/8 (WED) 7:30pm
The Stage Craft of Zhou Xinfang (1961) *

21/8 (WED) 7:30pm
Murder in the Oratory (1937) *

28/8 (WED) 7:30pm
Mu Guiying Routing Hongzhou (1963) #

4/9 (WED) 7:30pm
Sun Wu Kong Thrice Beat the Bony Demon (1960)#

#Lyrics with Simplified Chinese subtitles
*Lyrics and dialogues with Simplified Chinese subtitles
Source and information provided by China Film Archive