Product: Peking Opera Ying Tai Kang Hun
Starring: Li Haiyan, Zhen Jianhua
Performed by the First Troupe of China National Peking Opera Company
Published by Beijing Culture & Art Audio-Visual Publishing House, 2005
Media: 1 DVD
Language: Chinese
Subtitle: Chinese
ISBN: 7883012185
ISRC: CN-C02-05-0035-0/V.J8
This performance is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of China Peking Opera Theatre.
Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, Butterfly Lovers, Yingtai Resists Marriage
A beautiful and talented woman named Zhu Yingtai from Shangyu, Zhejiang, disguises herself a man travelling to Hangzhou for attendance of an academy. During her journey, she met and joined Liang Shanbo, a companion schoolmate from Shaoxing, who was believed her moral and intellectual equal. For three years of study in Mount Phoenix, they form a close bond of love and friendship but without the other student knowing she is actually a woman. They swear a pact of brotherhood. When the two part, Zhu wishes to marry Liang, and offers to arrange for Liang to marry her 16 year-old fictitious sister within a hundred days. She does so and Liang Shanbo accepts. However, in the meantime, Zhu Yingtai's parents arrange a marriage for her with another man because she does not tell them her secret arrangements to marry Liang Shanbo. When her parents tell her after her returning home, Zhu Yingtai refuses the marriage to the son of the Ma family and her parents accuse her of filial impropriety. She finally relents and agrees to marry the Ma son. Shortly thereafter Liang Shanbo arrives and proposes. Zhu Yingtai regretfully refuses him and tells him her situation. Liang Shanbo understands her difficulty but is deeply saddened. He dies only two days after their meeting of sadness. Zhu Yingtai is alerted to his death and on the way to her future husbands home for the marriage, she stops at Liang Shanbo's grave. She jumps into the cracked tomb as she wails at sacrifice, and a pair of butterflies are flapping as Liang and Zhu. They are once again together and live happily ever after.
Peking Opera Yingtai Resists Marriage was the drama that the master of Peking Opera Cheng Yanqiu adapted and performed after liberation, and it also was the last work of his life.
Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is one of the four archaic legends in China, so called Chinese Romeo and Juliet story. Other three legends are Madam White Snake, Meng Jiangnu's Wail Shattered The Great Wall, and the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid.
商品名称：京剧《英台抗婚》
领衔主演：李海燕、甄建华
演出：中国京剧院一团
出版社：北京文化艺术音像出版社，2005
介质：DVD
碟数：1
字幕：中文
ISBN：7883012185
ISRC：CN-C02-05-0035-0/V.J8
本剧为中国京剧院建院五十周年经典剧目展演之精品剧目。
剧情介绍
祝英台与梁山伯在凤凰山同学三载，情意深厚，英台临别，假称家有九妹，许山伯百日内来家议亲。英台至家，不料乃父已将其许婚马文才。一日马家下聘，英台见聘礼罗列，以为山伯所备，羞喜交集。乃知真相，大为惊愤，向父抗婚，父女反目。梁会祝后，忧郁而死。祝英台婚期，于途中哭祭梁坟，墓裂，祝奔入，死后并化为蝶。
《英台抗婚》是京剧大师程砚秋后期的代表作，在板式运用及唱腔的创造中，都有很大的突破与发展。
“五小程旦”之首、程派新星李海燕扮相清秀，表演细腻，唱念精到。她的声音极富感情色彩，发声结实浑厚，细弱时轻而不浮，宽宏时实而不浊。她扮演的祝英台从哭诉、哀求到绝望，层次清楚，感人肺腑，已达到相当高的境界。
Li Haiyan Plays Zhu Yingtai
