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[[file: The Peony Pavilion.JPEG|thumb|250px|left|The Peony Pavilion]]

The great classical stage art of [[Kunqu]] is an ancestor of [[Peking Opera]] that first became popular in the 16th century. Kunqu was to remain [[China]]'s dominant national theatrical form for some 300 years, and although it lost its place as the nation's preeminent form of theatre with the rise of Peking Opera, a number of Kunqu troupes still perform regularly. They not only stage the great classics and create new ones, but they also make imaginative adaptations of some of those time-honored pieces. The [[Shanghai Kunqu Troupe]]'s production of '''''The Peony Pavilion''''' is one of these.

'''''The Peony Pavilion''''' ('''牡丹亭'''), written in 1598, has long been considered the greatest Kunqu opera of all time. Its author was [[Tang Xianzu]], who lived from 1550 to 1617. A native of [[Jiangxi Province]], Tang was widely recognized as a man of immense learning, yet he failed to thrive as a government official. Exile, demotion and poverty marked his official career, but he left behind five Kunqu operas, among them ''The Peony Pavilion''. ([[The Peony Pavilion|More...]])

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