Le Pavillon aux pivoines
The Peony Pavilion
The universality and the theatrical immediacy of this sixteenth-century Chinese masterpiece generate a powerful audience appeal even today. Acting, singing, music, dance, acrobatics, stilt-walking, puppetry, recitation, pageantry and martial arts, all find a place in the rich tapestry of Chen Shi-Zheng's production of "The Peony Pavilion". Poetic episodes alternate with elaborate set pieces and low slapstick, so that the romantic love story of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei is interrupted by invading Mongol hordes, bungling comic servants and rustics, marauding brigands and a host of other colourful characters. There is also the visual enchantment of myriad embroidered costumes, exotic head-dresses and elaborate make-up. The story is told through a flowing sequence of some two hundred arias that have an attractively tuneful, folk-like quality. Twelve musicians, present on stage, play bamboo flutes, two-stringed viols, lutes, dulcimer and panpipes. The whole opera "The Peony Pavilion" was performed in Paris, at La Villette, in December 1999. Fipa 2001 presents a two-hour version in Competition - Performing arts as well as the whole film (6 parts) as Special Screenings.
France / United Kingdom / Australia - 2000 - 2 h - Betacam Digital - Colour
Réalisation
Derek Bailey
avec
Sian Busby
Adapté de "Mudan ting" de
Tang Xianzu
Mise en scène
Chen Shi-Zheng
Image
John Burgess
Son
Andy Rose
Décors
Huang Haiwei
Montage
Claude Pegorard
Musique
Ye Tang
Interprétation
Quian Yi, Wen Yuhang, Wen Fulin, Lin Sen, Jia Yonghong, Song Yang
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Production
LGM,
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75009 Paris, France
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Co-Production
RM Associates, SBS Television, Société Française de Production, ARTE France, Mezzo, Festival d'Automne, Lincoln Center Festival
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Ventes
RM Associates,
DCD Media plc, 151 Wardour Street,
W1F 8WE Londres, Royaume-Uni
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