

However, the audience is worth looking forward to see a vibrant show in this play, because a new scene shows young people wearing four gorgeous flags and long pheasant feathers spinning around the heroine.Īccording to Kathy’s talk, Jing Kun Opera Association is a non-profit organization. “The Drunken Imperial Concubine” belongs to the performance form of Peking Opera. Yang Guifei also represents the image of ancient beauty. The emotional entanglement between the emperor and his wife is a hot topic that women love. This story mainly reflects the extravagant and romantic feelings of the Tang Dynasty’s heyday. Emperor Xuan Zong promised to watch moon and drink wine in “Hundred Flowers Pavilion” with her, but emperor broke his promise because he went to find other concubines and abandoned Yang Guifei. Yang Guifei was one of the four beautiful women in ancient China.

She will perform the classic drama “The Hudred Flowers Pavilion”. The latest performance is from 7pm to 9pm on February 8. From Novemto February 8, 2019, she will hold two Peking Opera performance. Nowadays, she will hold her personal performance in London. They are “The Stroll in the Garden” and “The Startling Dreams”. Kunqu Opera developed two of the most classic drama scenes, The Peony Pavilion (Mu Dan Ting). Peking Opera developed The Jade Bracelet (‘Shi Yu Zhuo’), and a dream in the Spring Boudoir (Chun Gui Meng) a special form of performance. Their studio mainly promotes two forms of Chinese drama, Kunqu Opera and Peking Opera. She teaches Peking Opera and Kunqu in London, regardless of age and race. She often translates opera scripts into English to enhance the understanding of the audience and learners. In 2010, she was awarded the honorary membership of 48 group club “Ice-Breakers” in recognition of her contribution to the understanding of East and West.

She also appeared at Malta, Northern Ireland and the 2006 Venice Biennale.

She has held lectures, workshops and performances in Beijing opera and Kunqu opera in museums, theaters, community halls and schools. In 2008, under the auspices of the London Arts Council, she studied in Shanghai, the famous Kunqu actor Liang Guyin.īefore she settled in the UK in 1997, she was the Vice-Chancellor and Senior English Officer of any secondary school and the Secretary General of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. In 2005, she won the Tourism Scholarship of the Winston Churchill Memorial Foundation in the UK, and studied in depth with Wang Fengmei, the master of Kunqu Opera in Hangzhou. Kathy is the founding chairman and voluntary CEO of the London Jing Kun Opera Association. She also studied with the former Shanghai Kunqu actor Le Yiping for five years of Kunqu movement. Kathy studied Hong Kong and the late Mei Lanfang style expert Bao Youdie for nine years in Peking Opera.
