Mu Dan Ting

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My favourite opera show ever. The first time I watched Kunqu is Mu Dan Ting. My favourite show used to be Liang Zhu but I got sick of it in AX so my all time favourite show now is Mu Dan Ting. It is just so classic ok.. no fight.. ok ok OK!

Hahahaha..

Show you all the youthful version mu dan ting. It was a big production and was staged in Taipei. The actors are all very young and hence the name 'youthful version'. But I must admit that this is not the best version I have watched. The master of Du Li Niang is Zhang Ji Qing ok. No fight.

Not the best version but costume and choreograph is the best I have seen, I have seen 6 versions on MDT and this one has the best choreography. Actually all the kunqu have very good choreograph, it is one of their trademark.. Zai ge zai wu...

I think black and empty stage provided alot of imagination space for audience. sometimes it is better to let the audience have breathing and imagining space then to cramp the whole stage with backdrops.

The whole impression of it is very fantasy... very romantic.


Comments

Kongming said…
second time i saw mdt clip...
e first was 1 tat i blog.

getting more n more interested in the story.

e sheng and dan voice very nice and beautiful.
1:56 AM
Miko said…
the story very long leh. Somemore both the dan and sheng got a 30 minutes solo piece all alone. U will sleep one. My mum fell asleep.
1:10 PM
Kongming said…
wake me up if i fell asleep... er... can throw water at me. Not only singing bad can throw water leh
11:36 PM
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