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NCPA Opera Commission

Date: July 28-Aug 02 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-880 yuan

NCPA opera commission Jinsha River is created at the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The opera is adapted from a novel of the same name, published in 1959. Chen Jing, the author of this novel, is a military writer focusing on themes of the Long March, which he personally experienced. Jinsha River tells the story happened between the Red Army trekking on the Long March and people living in Tibetan areas along the Jinsha River. This novel was once adapted into a Pingju Opera work (1959). In 1963, it also has a film adaptation of the same name.

(China Daily 07/15/2017 page20)