Peking Opera-The Unicorn Purse. [Photo/China Daily]

Peking Opera-The Unicorn Purse

Date: Feb 11-7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-580 yuan

The Unicorn Purse is a classical repertoire with concentrated expression of Cheng School. By means of describing an uncon-strained girl Xue Xiangling's vicissitudes from affluence to poverty, play wright Weng Ouhong poetically expresses unlimited inconstancy of human relationships and fickleness of human nature to everyone's knowledge. Cheng Yanqiu designs elegant and unusual singing aria and beautiful posture for this play. Aesthetic stylized performance contains profound worldly emotions and philosophy of conducting in the society. In May 1940, The Unicorn Purse made its debut at Shanghai Golden Grand Theater. It was staged for consecutive ten sessions, and the audiences swarmed into the theatre. Since then, the story on Xue Xiangling firmly touches the hearts of countless audiences.