5/4 Saturday

1. 二胡獨奏 (陳嘉紅)Erhu Solo (Play by: Annie Chen)

2. 黛玉悲秋 (對唱：黃翠珍一俞姜紅) 故事描述林黛玉和賈寶玉分散之後的痛苦情景。她憂傷成病，見到秋色淒涼，聯想到自己的身世，無限傷感。幸有賢慧婢紫鵑在身邊相陪，好言相勸，一對相依為命的好姐妹相伴到天明。 Dai Yu’s Autumn Sadness (Sing by: Ginger Chen - Jeannie Wong) The story describes the painful scene after Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu separated. She became sick with sadness. When she saw the desolate autumn scenery, she thought of her own hard life and mourned all the loss she had to endure. Fortunately, the wise maid Zi Juan was by her side, and they supported each other as if they were sisters.

3. 新霸王別姫 (對唱：羅偉華一區宜愛) 故事講述楚漢相爭的歴史劇。此曲描述項羽（戰敗後回營帳見妻子虞姬，當虞姬見項羽已經失勢戰敗了，為免項羽有後顧之憂），最後刎頸殉主。一代英雄項羽仰天長嘆，寫下悲壯的《垓下歌》。 Farewell My Concubine (Sing by: Wai Wah Law - Sophia Li) The story is about the conflict between the Chu and Han Dynasty. The impoverished Han Xin, abandoned the Chu Dynasty and joined the Han Dynasty, and helped Liu Bang defeat Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu and his wife love each other very much. This song describe when his wife saw that Xiang Yu had lost power and was defeated, she committed suicide in his honor. Xiang Yu sighed, and wrote a tragic song to commemorate this event.

4. 中劇: 夢斷香銷四十年之 - (1) 鸞鳳分飛 (鄧振國一鄭藍鳳) 南宋愛國詩人陸遊自幼便與早喪父母、遠來投親之表妹唐琬交厚，兩人情愛日增，遂成夫婦。因唐琬婚後三年無子，陸母逼唐琬出家為尼，謀另娶王氏春娥為媳婦。 Forty Years of Broken Dream: (Act 1: ) The Separation of the Love Birds (Act by: Zhenguo Deng – Cammy Cheang) Lu You, a poet of the Song Dynasty, married his cousin Tang Wan, but they weren’t able to produce any children. Lu's mother forced her son to divorce her. In act one you will see two people who are deeply in love but were forced to separate.

5. 琵琶行 (對唱：羅偉華一金余小雲) 白居易任職「江州司馬」時，有朋友來看望仕途失意的他。臨別的時候，他到江邊送行。忽然聽到有人在江邊的船上彈奏琵琶，便力邀彈奏琵琶的人出來為他演奏。白居易聽罷彈唱有感同是天涯淪落人，便寫就一曲琵琶行贈與歌娘，及後留存後世，成為一時佳話。 Poem of the Lute (Sing by: Wai Wah Law - Annie Yu) Scholar Bai Ju Yi was on a boat by the river when he heard someone singing while playing the lute. Bai himself was frustrated with life and through the song and the music of the lute, he found that he and the singer shared the same sentiment. Hence, he wrote the “Poem of the Lute” after the encounter for the enjoyment of many generations to come.

6. 趙子龍攔江截斗 (對唱：馬潔貞一俞姜紅） 三國時期，東吳孫權乘劉備入川之際，命大將周善到荊州謊報吳國太后病危，誘騙孫尚香帶兒子阿斗回吳國，以作人質，脅迫劉備歸還荊州。尚香不知是計，攜兒急返。趙子龍聞報，情知不妙，立駕小舟追趕，力勸尚香將阿斗留下。尚香不從，與子龍爭執，尚香不敵，最终還是將阿斗交還子龍带回荆州。

Zhao Zilong’s River Blockade (Sing by: Kit Ma - Ginger Chen)

During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu Dynasty falsely spread the rumor to his sister who married Liu Bei that their mother was critically ill, and tricked Sun Shangxiang into taking his son Adou back to Wu so he can use him as a hostage, forcing Liu Bei to return Jingzhou County to Wu. When Zhao Zilong heard this, he immediately chased after Shang Xiang in a boat and blocked the river, begging Shang Xiang not to go and this is a trap. Shang Xiang refused and insisted on continuing the journey with her son.

7. 中劇: 夢斷香銷四十年之 - (2) 沈園題壁 (鄧振國一鄭藍鳳) 第二場故事繼續講三年後春日，陸遊沈園漫步，竟與唐琬相遇。怨侶重逢，百感交集，相對唏噓。唐琬奉酒以待。陸遊無限感傷，在壁上題《釵頭鳳》詞一闋後離去。 Forty Years of Broken Dream: (Act 2) The Heartbreak Inscription in Shen Garden(Act by: Zhenguo Deng – Cammy Cheang) Act 2 The story continues after three years later, they met again in the garden of Shen, by then both of them had remarried to someone else. The two broke out in tears and expressed their unforgotten love to each other. Tang Wan served Lu wine and Lu wrote a heart-breaking poem on the wall in the garden.

8. 絕情谷底俠侶情 (對唱：羅偉華一鄭宗妃) 故事取自金庸名著「神雕俠侶」中一段感人愛情故事。描述一對情侣，楊過與小龍女經歴重重波折，小龍女受重傷被廹跳落斷腸崖，她在石壁上刻字留言，若僥倖不死， 十六年後，將於谷底與楊過相見，楊過亦唯有苦等十六年後，依約前來，從斷腸崖上跳落絕情谷底，重逢舊侶，兩人相見，恍如隔世，互吐心聲，從此逍遙世外。 Romance at the bottom of the Valley (Sing by: Wai Wah Law - Esther Tang) The story is taken from a touching love story in Jin Yong's masterpiece "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". It describes a couple, Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu, who went through many twists and turns and Xiao Longnu was seriously injured and had nowhere to run but jump off the cliff. She wrote a message on the stone wall to Yang Guo that if she was lucky enough to survive, she would meet Yang Guo at the bottom of the valley sixteen years later. Yang Guo saw this message and came back sixteen years later as promised, and reunited with his old love at the bottom of the valley.

9. 中劇: 夢斷香銷四十年之 - (3) 殘夜泣箋 (鄭藍鳳一柳霞) 故事是說，唐婉讀詞，傷情病倒，和詞一闋後終。 Forty Years of Broken Dream: (Act 3) Crying In The Night(Act by: Cammy Cheang – Xia Liu) Tang Wan later read the poem. She was so heart broken by the poem that she went home and fell ill and never recovered.

5/5 Sunday

1. 二胡獨奏 (陳嘉紅)Erhu Solo (Play by: Annie Chen)

2. 沈園題壁兩斷腸 (對唱：陳明一唐小甜) 宋代詩人陸游娶表妹唐琬，婚後無子，陸母強逼離婚，三年後二人重遇於沈園，陸已另娶王氏女，唐已另嫁趙氏夫。二人互訴心情，哀哭分手，唐琬奉黃縢酒、陸游題斷腸詞。 The Heartbreak Inscription in Shen Garden (Sing by: Ming Chen - Xiaotian Tang) Lu You, a poet of the Song Dynasty, married his cousin Tang Wan, but they had no children after the marriage. Lu's mother forced her son to divorce her. Three years later, they met again in the garden of Shen, by then both of them had remarried to someone else. The two expressed their unforgotten love to each other and broke out in tears. Tang Wan served Lu wine and Lu wrote a heart-breaking poem on the wall.

3. 夢會太湖 (戲: 梁毅明一黃寶瑩) 越國因戰敗而要將越女西施獻與吳國，夢會太湖寫於戰后範蠡為尋覓西施走遍浣紗舊地，在夢中與西施相會同游太湖細訴離情時，西施告知他此生永居水雲鄉，只有芳魂為月魄，常照在君旁。 Dream of Reuniting at Tai Lake (Act by: Yiming Liang - Tracy Lam) When the Wu Kingdom defeated the Yue Kingdom at war, the beautiful Xi Shi was sent to the Wu Kingdom as a peace offering and was forced to separate from her lover Fan Li. This song was written after the war, when Fan Li traveled all over the old land of Huansha in search of Xi Shi. He reunited with Xi Shi at Tai Lake in his dream and Xi Shi vowed that her spirit will be by his side forever and ever more.

4. 藏域鸞歌萬里情 (對唱：程小勵一馬桂芬) 描述唐朝文成公主為和親遠嫁西藏吐蕃王，而吐蕃王為表誠意還親自帶領西藏子民在西藏城關相迎的歡樂場景。 Tibetan Song of Thousand Miles Love (Sing by: Judy Jung & Michelle Ma Ho)Describes the joyful scene of the Princess of the Tang Dynasty traveling to Tibet to marry the king, and the king personally led the Tibetan people to greet her at the city gate to show his sincerity.

5. 跪池 (戲: 鄧振國一鄭藍鳳) 獅吼記之跪池描寫陳慥（字季常）應蘇東坡游春之約，其妻柳氏，約定如有妓陪伴，將施以杖責；一面暗遣蒼頭偵悉，果有妓女琴操同游。陳歸后，柳氏罰令長跪池邊。適蘇東坡來訪，見狀、責柳不當，並唆使陳納妾。柳氏乃斥蘇干預家事，怒而逐客。 Pool Kneeling of the Lion’s Roar (Act by: Zhenguo Deng - Cammy Cheang) Chen Jichang went out with Su Dongpo to a spring outing. Chen’s wife, Liu Shi, found out they broke their promise by having prostitutes accompany them on their outing, after Chen returned, she punished Chen Jichang by having him kneeling by the pool all night long. When Su Dongpo came to visit, upon seeing this, he blamed Liu for being inappropriate and instigated Chen to divorce the wife and take a concubine. The Liu family reprimanded Su for interfering in family affairs and kicked him out of their house.

6. 血濺未央宮 (戲: 梁毅明一唐小甜) 劉邦奪得天下後，對開國功臣韓信起了疑心，貶其爲淮陰侯，韓信因此心生不滿。為恐功高過主的韓信有忒心，由蕭何設計，教呂後以美色誘韓信到未央宮相聚，暗下毒於酒中，韓信最終死於呂后竹劍下。 The Bloodshed In Wei Yang Palace (Act by: Yiming Liang - Xiaotian Tang) After Liu Bang conquered the world, he became suspicious of the founding hero Han Xin and demoted him to a lower rank, he feared that Han Xin would use his hero status to overpower him someday, so he asked his wife, Empress Lu to lure Han Xin to Weiyang Palace with her beauty. She secretly put poison in the wine and Han Xin became powerless and died under Empress Lu's sword.

7. 南唐殘夢 (對唱：伍澡冶－陳美愛) 南唐李後主因亡國被軟禁於宋國，其妻小周后因貌美時常被宋帝令其入宫侍酒，李後主深感没有自由和耻辱感嘆寫下故國不堪回首月明中，恰似一江春水向東流 詩詞而被宋帝怀疑他還思念故國以毒酒赐死。 Remnant Dream of Southern Tang Dynasty (Sing by: Joe Ng - Amy Ng) Emperor Li of the Southern Tang Dynasty was imprisoned by the Song Dynasty because of the subjugation of his country. His wife, Xiao Zhou, was often ordered by the Song Emperor to serve wine in the palace because of her beauty. With much shame and helplessness under confinement, Emperor Li wrote a poem to memorialize his old country. The poem upsetted the Song Emperor and he ordered Li’s death by poison.

8. 泣血水繪園 (對唱：古少忠－俞姜紅) 故事敘述明末清初社會變革時期，冒闢疆歸隱家鄉，定居如皋水繪園，與董小宛之間的恩愛故事，表現 了愛與恨、生與死。 The Weeping In The Water Painting Garden (Sing by: Harry Koo - Ginger Chen) The story describes the love story between Dong Xiaowan and Dong Xiaowan during the period of social change in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. It shows love and hate, life and death.

9. 斬經堂 (戲: 梁毅明一唐小甜) 故事是說，吳漢的父親是漢朝大臣，王莽篡漢，吳父忠烈，不肯歸降，死於王莽劍下。吳漢長大，不知王莽是殺父仇人，接納王莽以女王蘭英賜婚，後來其母告之真相，要他先斬其妻，再報殺父滅國之仇，其母自縊身亡，王蘭英得知真相，亦以存忠劍自殺。 The Bloodshed in Chanting Hall (Act by: Yiming Liang - Xiaotian Tang) The story goes that Wu Han's father was a minister of the Han Dynasty, and Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty. Wu's father was loyal and refused to surrender, and died under Wang Mang's sword. When Wu Han grew up, he didn't know that Wang Mang was his father’s killer and married his daughter, Lanying. Later, his mother told him the truth and asked him to kill his wife first and then avenge his father's killer. At the end everyone committed suicide to keep their honor.