30th Macao International Music Festival
A Dream of Fragrancy
Chamber Opera Premiere

14~15-10-2016 Friday and Saturday 8:00pm

16-10-2016 Sunday 3:00pm (Additional performance)
Venue : Dom Pedro V Theatre

Conductor／Francis Kan
Production／Macao International Music Festival、Macao Orchestra

The official Tang Xianzu is demoted to a position in southern China. On his journey, he stops off at Macao, where he encounters a quick-witted Portuguese lady Maria, who has the beauty of morning dew on a flower. They develop a heart-warming relationship through tours around Macao before they part; years later after various twists and turns, they reunite when Tang is writing The Peony Pavilion. Can the colossal author Tang Xianzu have, in this story, the same happy ending as the main characters of his works? This original chamber opera, adapted from Tang Xianzu’s travelling experience in Macao (Xiang Shan Bay) in 1591, is an ambiguous fusion of historic reality with fictional plots.

This is the first local chamber opera created by artistic and cultural professionals across the city in celebration of the 30^th anniversary of the Macao International Music Festival. Among them are famous playwright Lawrence Lei, composer Liu Chenchen, young poet Un Sio San as well as a group of singing virtuosos. The singers will perform, with poetic grace, in the exquisitely unusual opera of romance reminiscent of the small but charming town of the old days.

Performed in Mandarin, with surtitles in Chinese, Portuguese and English

Duration: approximately 1 hour, no interval