“ditty” is the forerunner of Taiwanese Opera. Immigrants from southern Fujian brought “ditty,” popular folk songs, to Taiwan which were sung and gradually developed into a kind of “xiao-xi” (“small opera”) in the rural areas of Yilan. Later it was further developed into a kind of “da-xi” (“big opera”) and performed in larger cities. It became one of important forms of traditional drama known to have originated in Taiwan. For the past one hundred years it has been performed both indoors and outdoors and has proved highly popular. Since performances were broadcast on radio, TV, and other media, and with the release of records and films, it has become Taiwan’s most representative dramatic form.
The Liao Chiung-chih Taiwanese Opera Foundation for Culture and Education was established in 1999 by Ms. Liao Chiung-chih who has spared no effort for... (Read more)
Sun Rong-hui, son of the famous military sheng (male characters) Sun Gui, established Yi-Shin Taiwanese Opera Troupe in 1989. The troupe’s members are... (Read more)
ShiuKim Taiwanese Opera Troupe was established in Taizhong in 1988. Based in central Taiwan, the troupe gradually expanded their activities to the sou... (Read more)
Ming Hwa Yuan Arts and Cultural Group was founded in 1929 by Chen Ming-ji. It’s a family-operated theatrical troupe composed of three generations of t... (Read more)
Tang Mei Yun Taiwanese Opera Company established in 1997, has been recruiting talent from theatre arts and other fields to make brand new and large-sc... (Read more)
Founded in Kaohsiung in the year 2000, the Chun-Mei Taiwanese Opera Troupe has been renowned for being active in cultivating talent, giving opportunit... (Read more)
Taiwanese Opera originated and has been developed here in Taiwan. In the Japanese Occupation Period, it developed skills from the Shanghai School of B... (Read more)
This opera classic was recorded by the Liao Chiung-chih Taiwanese Opera Foundation for Culture and Education through the “Project of Recording and Pre... (Read more)
In the Taiwanese language, 「adding a lantern」 is homonymous to 「having a son.」 The theme of this play is based on this homonym. A young man from a ric... (Read more)
This play is adapted from the old scripts of The Hidden Mystery of Song Palace. The playwright, Li Ji-wen, endeavored to give new interpretations to t... (Read more)
This play was selected to be performed at the 2008 Folk Arts and Taiwanese Opera Festival in China. The playwright, Sun Fu-rie, used a frontier minori... (Read more)
In this play, Sun Fu-rei used Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus as a cross-cultural prototype, also referring to the plot f... (Read more)
This play is TV and Xiangsheng actress Lang Zu-yun's first attempt in directing Taiwanese opera. Wen Yu-hang, sheng (male characters) of Beijing Opera... (Read more)
This play is adapted from the Grimm fairy tale, Snow White. Without deviating from the guiding principle of the 「prince and princess live happily ever... (Read more)
This play is adapted from an old work, The River of Yin and Yang. It tells the story of Zhang Mao-shen, who accidentally crossed the boundary of the n... (Read more)
This play is one of the few lyrical plays of Ming Hwa Yuan, focusing on touching interaction between family members and an individual’s exploration of... (Read more)
This play is divided into two parts, with a duration of five hours. The chief playwright, Chen Sheng-guo, browsed through Biographies of Immortals and... (Read more)
This play is one of the representative works of Ming Hwa Yuan. It can accommodate either an indoor or outdoor stage. It won the award of Best Director... (Read more)
This is the first episode of the Ming Hwa Yuan Eight Immortals series. Its plot line centers on the enlightenment of the most proud, insubordinate, an... (Read more)
This play can be called the most classic and the most spectacular representative work of Ming Hwa Yuan since its founding in 1929. It breaks the tradi... (Read more)
This play portrays the Tang Emperor Taizhong, Li Shi-min, and his history of killing his own brothers in court feuds, taking his sister-in-law as his ... (Read more)
In the Spring and Autumn Era the Kings of Wu and Yue had been competing with each other for over twenty years. Fan Li was forced to send his lover Xis... (Read more)
The playwright/director Wang You-hui produced this play based on the narrative of a Taiwanese song of the same title. With the performance elements of... (Read more)
The Immortal Lovers was inspired by one of Li Bai’s poems, which goes “I would have to be your eternal friend, and meet you on the clouds.” The show w... (Read more)
Adapted from the music The Phantom of the Opera, the show The Phantom of The Cabaret - Sir Kuei was Ko Tsung-ming’s grand work for the establishment o... (Read more)
True to the saying “three thousand stories from the Tang Dynasty, eight hundred stories the Song Dynasty, and countless stories are based on events fr... (Read more)
The show Switch was nominated for the Traditional Theater Program Award under the 44th Golden Bell Awards in 2009. As a theatrical adaptation of the m... (Read more)
The exceptional doctor named Piei Chueh living in the Spring and Autumn Period is the first legendary doctor with an official biography in Chinese his... (Read more)
‘Taiwanese New Drama” originated in the 1920s as a result of the intellectual elite’s creative pursuit of modern drama in the Japanese occupation peri... (Read more)