| Ballet Drama Raise the Red Lantern
Directed by Zhang Yimou
Performed by the National Ballet of China
Published by Peninsula Audio-Visual Publishing House, 2005
Media: 1 DVD
Language:
ISBN: 7883671294
ISRC: CN-D010500710
Raise the Red Lantern tells of a girl who reluctantly becomes the third wife
of a powerful mandarin in the 20s of the last century. Her beauty makes her
husband desire her greatly, to the extent that he forces her to submit when she
shows reluctance. She protests desperately but fails to avoid her tragic destiny. She
idles away her life by watching operas in theaters or playing mah-jong all day
long. From time to time she would seek chances to meet her former lover, a
handsome young opera performer. But her private dating is spied by her
husband's second wife who is jealous. Her adultery is caught by
her husband on the spot. But the second concubine receives nothing but a slash
on the face from her husband. Frustrated in agony, she tears all the red
lanterns in the courtyard. Their husband, also their master, because furious and
put his two concubines to death. Before dying, the two envious concubines
forgive each other, entirely forgetting their hatreds.
Directed by Zhang Yimou, a famous director of the same title movie, performed
by the National Ballet of China, the ballet version of Raise the Red Lantern
makes dramatic narrative and visual brilliance powerfully serve each other,
yielding an absolutely clear and richly expressive story line. Combining the
ballet dancing with Chinese art elements, the result is spectacular: dancing of
exquisite grace and line, sumptuously clever stage and costume design, a
brilliant infusion of some Peking Opera dance, song and fighting elements, and
the poignancy of the simple story itself. This ballet version of Raise the Red
Lantern was published as one of the national stage art elite series.
商品名称：芭蕾舞剧《大红灯笼高高挂》
介质：DVD
碟数：1
出版社：半岛音像出版社，2005
ISBN：7883671294
ISRC：CN-D01-05-0071-0/V¡¤J8
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故事发生在上个世纪二十年代。一个年轻的女子被强行塞入花轿，拼命的抗争最终未能摆脱悲剧命运，她成了老爷的三姨太。在唱堂会、打麻将的消磨中，她利用短暂的机会与昔日恋人——戏班中年轻的武生相会，恋情却被居心叵测的二太太发现。在二太太的告密下，老爷当场捉拿了越轨的这对恋人，幻想夺回宠爱的二太太换来的却是老爷的一记耳光。在失意的痛苦中，二太太将满院的红灯笼撕得粉碎。震怒之中的老爷将一对恋人和二太太送上刑场。在死亡面前，他们尽释前嫌，用爱和宽容彼此拥抱。
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