Peking Opera Research Centre of Hebei Xue Pinggui Returning to His Humble Abode Pei YanlingFour Stylistic Schools of Xiaosheng Roles in Yue Opera Torturing Kouzhu from How a Dead Cat Was Substituted for a New-born Prince  Wu FenghuaFour Stylistic Schools of Xiaosheng Roles in Yue Opera Seeking out His Wife at the Mulberry Orchard and Fortune-telling from He Wenxiu  Zhao ZhigangFour Stylistic Schools of Xiaosheng Roles in Yue Opera Burning the Manuscripts and Mourning Daiyu from The Dream of the Red Chamber  Zhang XiaojunFour Stylistic Schools of Xiaosheng Roles in Yue Opera Fang Qing Visits His Aunt from The Pearl Pagoda  Xu BiaoxinA New Cantonese Opera Investigation to Redress a Wrong  Lee LungA New Cantonese Opera Investigation to Redress a Wrong  Lung Koon-tinA New Cantonese Opera Investigation to Redress a Wrong  Wong Chiu-kwanReverberating Notes from South China Highlights of the Eight Classic Pieces  Yuen Siu-fai, Law Kar-ying, Liu Kwok-sum (left to right)Zhejiang Yongjia Kunqu Opera Troupe The Number One Scholar Zhang Xie  Lin Meimei (middle)Yunnan Dian Opera Theatre Going to War from The Lady Generals of the Yang Family  Wang YuzhenExperimental Theatre of Liyuan Opera of Fujian  Chen San and Wuniang  Zeng JingpingHaifeng Baizi Opera Troupe of Guangdong Chrysanthemum  Yu Jincheng (Middle)No.2 Troupe of Yu Opera Theatre of Henan The Breezy Pavilion  Li Shujian (left), Bai Qing (right)Jingkun Theatre Wu Song and Pan Jinlian  Tang Yuen-ha (left), Hou Shaokui (right)Jingkun Theatre Disaster Strikes and The Death of Lady Yang from The Palace of Eternal Life  Cai Zhengren

Chinese Opera Film Shows

8 June (Sun)7:30 pm

Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Space Museum

Hebei Clapper Opera film Zhong Kui the Ghost-eater

starring Pei Yanling, Peng Huiheng, Chen Baosheng
ticket price $30
  • Lyrics with Chinese surtitles
13 June (Fri)7:30 pm

Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Space Museum

Liyuan Opera Film Chen San and Wuniang

starring Cai Ziqiang, Su Niaoshui, Su Ou, Lin Yuhua
ticket price $30
  • Lyrics with Chinese surtitles
15 June (Sun)7:30 pm

Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Space Museum

Dian Opera film The Borrowed Bride

starring Qiu Yuansun, Zhou Huinong, Wan Xiangzhen, Peng Guozhen
ticket price $30
  • Lyrics with Chinese surtitles
15  August (Fri)7:30 pm

Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Space Museum

Cantonese Opera film Lady General Fa Muk-lan

Fa Muk-lan dresses as a man and answers the call to arms in the place of her ailing father and young brother to fight the invading Huns. Fearless and invincible on the battlefield, Fa and her band of soldiers Lau Yuen-to, Wong Chung-yee, On Wai-kat quickly rise through the ranks. However, in the back of Wong and On's minds there has always remained a doubt about Fa's real gender. When the tide turns against the imperial army, Lau and others devise a scheme by which Fa will wear the guise of a sing-song girl to seduce the Hun king. Ensnared and entrapped, the king and his army were crushed in an ambush orchestrated by Fa and Lau. As Fa slowly recovers from a wound under Lau's care, she contracts a betrothal for a presumed twin sister and Lau. The general visits the family and asks for the hand of his fiancée, who turns out to be Fa stripped of her disguise. Shocked and angered by her deceit, the emperor orders her decapitation but grants her indemnity upon the joint petition of his generals.

starring Fung Wong-nui, Mak Bing-wing, Chan Kam-tong, Poon Yat-on, Chan Ho-kau
ticket price $30
  • Lyrics with Chinese surtitles
  • Description provided by Hong Kong Film Archive
22  August (Fri)7:30 pm

Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Space Museum

Cantonese Opera film All Because of a Smile

Yeung Yuet-lau chances on Fan Bing-ying, the maidservant of county magistrate Man Sau-lim and instantly recognises her lovely smile with deep dimples as his lover from teenage years. No sooner, the woman is taken as his concubine. Yuet-lau falls victim to a murder-for-money scheme hatched by his debt-ridden uncle Yeung To-mong, who frames the concubine for murder by turning Man's credit letter and the loan prepared for the magistrate placed in her safekeeping against her favour. Fan, who refuses to disclose the source of the money in order to save the reputation of the magistrate, the judge presiding over the case, is sentenced to life imprisonment and gives birth to a son named Siu-lau inside the prison cell. To-mong and Yuet-lau's wife hire a hit man to rid of the witness and her newborn. Raging about his wife's fraud to borrow in his name, the magistrate thwarts the attempt, rescues Siu-lau and kills his own wife. 18 years later, the newly crowned imperial scholar Siu-lau redresses his mother's grievance by staging a trial disguising as the fierce spirit of the deceased to get a confession from the murderer.

starring Fung Wong-nui, Mak Bing-wing, Leung Sing-po, Poon Yat-on, Lee Hong-kum
ticket price $30
  • Description provided by Hong Kong Film Archive