Chinese Opera

My friend invited me to join him to catch some Chinese opera photos, which was held near by his house. The opera was part of the activities carried out during the Nine Emperors' Birthday celebration (a Taoism event), on first nine days from the ninth month of lunar calendar.

I have never really watch a Chinese opera all these years, except from a TV screen. The overall experience is quite nice.

Chinese opera plays usually are adaptations from folks tales. But I have no idea which story that they were playing in this.

225 mm equiv, ISO 400, 1/80 sec, f/5.6, 0.0 EV

This is the second part of the play, and all I know is that the hero gets injured during a war.

300 mm equiv, ISO 800, 1/125 sec, f/5.6, 0.0 EV

An adaptation from "Flirting Scholar" (唐伯虎初遇秋香).

300 mm equiv, ISO 400, 1/60 sec, f/5.6, 0.0 EV

An adaptation from "Butterfly Lovers" (梁祝). The play depicts that Liang Shanbo threw the wedding biscuits presented to him, after realised that Zhu Yingtai was ordered to marry another guy.

110 mm equiv, ISO 400, 1/125 sec, f/5, 0.0 EV

My favourite out of all photos taken during the day: A classical musician in Chinese opera. Aren't him supposed to play Erhu instead of violin?

240 mm equiv, ISO 400, 1/30 sec, f/5.6, 0.0 EV

All photos was taken with smc DA 50-200mm F4.0-5.6 ED.

Click here for the slide show. (Contains some violence scenes).