Shaoxing opera undergoes renaissance in Taiwan

Shaoxing opera is the second largest kind of Chinese opera, second only to Beijing opera. A style of opera that originated from Sheng County in Zhejiang Province and flourished in Shanghai, it has sadly seen a gradual decline in Taiwan over the last twenty years. Fortunately, a group of Chinese opera enthusiasts formed Taiwan GOOD Drama Society (台灣GOOD古篤戲劇苑) to promote the traditional arts and culture of Taiwanese opera, Huang-mei-xi opera, Kun opera and Shaoxing opera - Taiwan GOOD Drama Society is the only organization in Taiwan still passing on the art of Shaxing opera.  

Despite spending five years promoting, performing and striving to unearth promising young talent, head of Taiwan GOOD Drama Society, Zheng Ya-qian (鄭雅謙), has still failed to attract the support of the public sector. In spite of this, thanks to a great deal of hard work from members and the public in general, on the 1st of April, 2017, at Taipei’s Dadaocheng Theater, they succeeded in putting on the first large-scale Shaoxing opera performance in over twenty years. Zheng Ya-qian said she hopes to cultivate some promising students from Taiwan’s rich pool of creative talent so that one day they can have exchange and collaboration with performers in mainland China. 

Shaoxing opera undergoes renaissance in Taiwan

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越劇在台灣 凋零與重生

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越劇，又稱紹興戲，是中國第二大戲曲劇種，僅次於京劇，起源於浙江嵊縣，在上海發揚光大，但是在台灣，近二十年來幾乎已經完全凋零，所幸有一群熱愛傳統戲曲的人們，成立了「台灣GOOD古篤戲劇苑」，努力發揚歌仔戲、黃梅調、崑曲及越劇等傳統藝術文化，是台灣唯一仍在傳唱越劇的團體。

團長鄭雅謙，歷經5年的推廣及教唱，並努力發掘有潛力的新生演員，雖然得不到公部門的支持，但在團員及熱心人士的奔走下，於2017年4月1日，在台北的大稻埕戲苑，舉辦近二十年來台灣首次的大型越劇公演。鄭雅謙表示，台灣也有很多有創意的人才，希望能把很好的同學培養起來，期待有一天能夠到大陸，和大陸的一級演員做交流。