Home > School Arts Education Schemes >
Exploring the Theatre : Arts Experience Scheme for Senior Secondary Students >
Exploring the Theatre : Arts Experience Scheme for Senior Secondary Students 2025/26 >
Back to previous page
Cantonese Opera Promotion Centre - Cantonese Opera The Double-pearl Phoenix Pre-performance Demonstration Workshop and Performance cum Post-performance Discussion

 Event Schedule

×

Event Schedule

Cantonese Opera Promotion Centre - Cantonese Opera The Double-pearl Phoenix Pre-performance Demonstration Workshop and Performance cum Post-performance Discussion (Completed)

Trailer

Please click here. 

Programme Contents

During a visit to a nunnery, Man Pit-ching encounters Minister Fok's daughter, Fok Ting-kam and finds her double-phoenix hairpin.  To get closer to her, Pit-ching sells himself as a servant to the Fok family.  Ting Hon-sheung, Prince Hon's adopted son, who has no real talents and always wishes to get married with Ting-kam, is humiliated by Pit-ching at the Prince's birthday banquet.  Minister Fok orders Pit-ching to deliver flowers to Ting-kam's chamber.  Ting-kam's servant, Chau-wah promises to bring Pit-ching and Ting-kam together when he adopts her as his sister. 

Learning that Minister Fok betroths her to Hon-sheung, Ting-kam fakes her death and flees to the capital with Chau-wah for Pit-ching.  Without news of him, the homeless Ting-kam and Chau-wah wander around.  Later on, the old Prime Minister Lau-king adopts Ting-kam as his daughter.  Her literary talent impresses the Emperor and titles her Princess.

Pit-ching, having topped the imperial examination, is summoned to the palace.  With his love for Ting-kam, Pit-ching refuses to marry the Princess despite the royal order.  Discovering Ting-kam is indeed the Princess, Pit-ching willingly accepts the marriage which irritates Hon-sheung.  To appease Hon-sheung, Pit-ching marries his adopted sister, Chau-wah, to him and requests the permission from the Emperor for a double wedding.

Creative Team

Producer and Co-ordinator Wong Siu-sang

Enquiries

Tel:

5943 1323 / artsareamgt@gmail.com (Programme)
2591 1722 (Enrolment)

Date
19.11.2025 (Wed)
Venue
Auditorium, Ko Shan Theatre New Wing
Time
2:30pm - 5:00pm
Target
S.4 - S.6 students
Ticket price
$40 (Students, Teachers)
* Tickets at $10 are available for Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients on a first-come-first-served basis.
Duration
2 hours 30 minutes  (including post-performance discussion)
Capacity per performance
566

Language

Cantonese

Pre-performance Demonstration Workshop

Date 

October to November 2025

Content

Based on The Double-pearl Phoenix and supplemented with elaboration and demonstration, the workshop covers:
  • introduction of the writer and the script of The Double-pearl Phoenix
  • the artistic features of singing, reciting and gesturing in Cantonese opera
  • music elements in performance including banghuang, xiaoqu, gong and drum, etc.
  • symbolism in Cantonese opera: the time-space compression concept and artistic performance techniques

Duration 

Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes

Speaker

Creative team or performers of the arts group

Language

Cantonese

Remarks

  • For an enrolment of 150 tickets or more, a pre-performance demonstration workshop will be conducted in school premises
  • For fewer than 150 participants from a single school, students and teachers are invited to attend workshop held at LCSD venues
  • Participants would receive education materials 
  • Actual date and time to be arranged with participating schools

The programme is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series.  The LCSD has long been promoting Chinese history and culture through organizing an array of programmes and activities to enable the public to learn more about the broad and profound Chinese culture.  For more information, please visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/ccpo/index.html.



  • Last modified : 08.05.2025