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Kunqu Opera: The Palace of Eternal Youth

The Palace of Eternal Youth is an epic work of China's traditional Kunqu Opera.

The play took Hong Sheng (1645-1704), a famous litterateur and dramatist in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), over 10 years to finish. The story is based on a famous Tang Dynasty (618-907) poem, Everlasting Regret and a Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) play, Raindrops on the Phoenix Tree.

The author depicted pure love between Emperor Li Longji of Tang Dynasty and his favorite concubine Yang Yuhuan and put the romance in the background of the downfall of the Tang Dynasty.

Learn more here.

If you go:

7:30 pm, Nov 17-19. Theater, National Center for the Performing Arts, 2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng district. 010 -6655-0000.

Ticket: 100-500 yuan