A Showcase of Cantonese Operas by Tong Tik-sang “Madame Wild Rose”
Xiqu
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The Dream Meeting between Emperor Wu of Hon and Lady Wei
Wei Ziqing is a songstress at a prince’s palace. Her brother Wei Qing, a slave charged to take care of the horses, is in love with the widowed Princess Pingyang. In order to free her lover from servitude, the Princess plots with Dongfang Shuo to arrange a romantic meeting between Ziqing and Emperor Wu who is on his way to a sacrificial ritual. Ziqing is conferred the title of Lady Wei and is inducted into the palace to seek audience with the Empress Dowager. The jealous Empress secretly summons her brother to kill Ziqing but fails. Emperor Wu sends Wei Qing to lead a military expedition to the west. Ziqing lives in confinement in Changmen. The Emperor visits her in secret and is delighted to learn she is pregnant by him. The news is unfortunately leaked to the Empress. Wei Qing returns triumphant, and knowing his sister’s life is at stake, he feigns to kill her by using a palace maid in her place while his sister escapes unharmed. The Emperor, thinking his beloved is dead, mourns her at her altar. When Ziqing appears with her son, he thinks he is in a dream. When the truth is known, Wei Qing is already in command of the state’s armed forces. The Empress is powerless and the Empress Dowager gives her blessings to the two marriages.
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