Peking Opera : A spectacular display of music, song, mime, glorious              costumes, amazing martial arts and acrobatics, offering an unforgettable glimpse of ancient China! The troupe is led by the internationally renowned Peking Opera star Ms. Qi Shu Fang.

 

             

The 2006 Peking Opera Festival is also made possible, by Grants from The National Endowment of The Arts,The New York State Council on The Arts and City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs

A Grand Mythic Peking Opera

The Monkey King Thrice Defeats the White-Boned Demon Synopsis

 

Violent and clever by nature, the White-Boned Demon has acquired, through a thousand years of practicing asceticism, the ability to change her shape at will.  Learning that the monk Xuan Zang and his disciples will pass by where she resides on their way to retrieve Buddhist sutras from the Western Paradise, she resolves to capture and eat him.  In so doing, she hopes to attain immortality.  She knows, however, that one of Xuan Zang’s disciples, the Monkey King Sun Wukong, has supernatural powers and is an expert at martial arts.  If she merely attacks Xuan Zang and his disciples, there is no way she will prevail.  For this reason she decides to deploy a clever strategy, relying on the monks well-known compassion and the laziness and gluttony of one of Xuan Zang’s other disciples, Zhu Bajie (the pig).  She changes shape three times:  the first time into a country lass, the second into an old woman, and the third into an old man.  Each time Sun Wukong sees through her disguise with his supernatural vision and defeats her.   But because of his compassion and his lack of supernatural perception, Xuan Zang cannot distinguish between human beings and evil spirits.  Thus, to stop the Monkey King from taking any more lives, Xuan Zang recites the magic words that cause the circlet on his head to shrink; in great pain, the Monkey King can fight no longer.  Finally, the White-Boned Demon causes a forged order from the Buddha himself to fall from Heaven.  Believing the order to be real, Xuan Zang exiles the Monkey King to his original home on Flower-Fruit Mountain.  Once the Monkey King is out of the way, the White-Boned Demon wastes no time in capturing Xuan Zang and Sha Seng.  Zhu Bajie, however, escapes to Flower-Fruit Mountain where he convinces the Monkey King to return from exile to help his master.  On the way down the mountain, Zhu Bajie is captured by demons.  Luckily, however, the Monkey King meets the mother of the White-Boned Demon, the Great Golden Toad Spirit, who has been invited by her daughter to attend a banquet.  After the Monkey King kills the Great Golden Toad Spirit and her lesser minions, he changes into the shape of the Great Golden Toad Spirit and attends the White-Boned Demon’s banquet.  In order to teach Xuan Zang a lesson, the Monkey King causes the White-Boned Demon to change her shape three times, just as she had done previously.  Seeing this, Xuan Zang realizes his mistake and is full of regret.  He then allows the Monkey King to use all of his powers to subdue the White-Boned Demon.  With the help of Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng, the White-Boned Demon and her demon army are defeated, master and disciple are reconciled, and the band of pilgrims resumes its travels westward in pursuit of the Buddhist sutras. 

大型神话京剧

《孙悟空三打白骨精》

剧情介绍

 

      修炼千年的白骨精,狡猾善变,残暴成性,得知唐僧师徒,要往西天取经,从此经过,吃了唐僧之肉,就能長生不老,故众妖争相前往,擒拿唐僧,白骨精深知,唐僧大徒兒孫悟空神通广大,武艺高強,若用武力,定难取勝.便巧施诡计,利用唐僧的“慈悲”心腸,与猪八戒的懒散贪嘴,先后变成村姑.老嫗和老丈,诱使唐僧上当,但均被孫悟空的火眼金睛识破,三次将她打死,可是唐僧肉眼凡胎,人妖不分,再加上慈悲心腸,对悟空降妖百般阻拦,並用紧箍咒语,迫使悟空头痛,不能降妖,但悟空忍住巨痛,将妖打死,唐僧见孫悟空连傷三命,大怒,白骨精趁机伪造“佛旨”从空飘下,诱使唐僧将悟空贬回花果山,悟空无奈含泪离去.不久白骨精便把唐僧,沙僧擒住,猪八戒幸免逃脱,只好去至花果山,用巧言智激孫悟空下山搭救师父,下山后不料八戒被妖擒拿,悟空却巧遇白骨精之母金蟾大仙,应女儿邀請赴宴,悟空将其及小妖打死,並变成金蟾大仙赴宴,在酒席宴前悟空为了教訓唐僧,要白骨精三变人形,演习一番,唐僧番然醒悟, 后悔莫及,悟空施展本领,与沙僧.八戒等共同除掉白骨精众妖,师徒和好,重赴取经征途.

美國第六屆中國京劇藝術節

The 2006 Peking Opera Festival

齐淑芳京剧团主办

The Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Company

Proudly Presents

Starring: Ms. Qi Shu Fang

(Recipient of the 2001 National Heritage   Fellowship for the Arts)

      “Ms.  “ Qi created magic on stage ---”The New York Times