TaipeiEye Peking Opera (TaipeiEYE Peking Opera)

For those who love Chinese tradition and culture, the TaipeiEye Peking Opera show cannot be missed when coming to Taipei City. Inspired by folk tales, TaipeiEye is a synthesis of traditional dance and opera forms. Visitors will be immersed in a cultural space lasting for 90 minutes with extremely unique experiences of images, sounds, touch, smell and even taste. TaipeiEye summarizes folk stories through the use of traditional musical instruments and dances of the local ethnic people, especially Taiwanese opera and Peking opera which have been re-edited into pieces. contemporary dance and martial arts performances. This is a unique traditional cultural art form, a pride of the Taiwanese people.

In 1915, Mr. Xian-Rong Koo, from a royal family in Taipei, bought the theater from a Japanese. He renovated the facilities and renamed the theater, "Taiwan Novel Hall" (Taiwan Novel Hall) with the desire to promote the values of traditional Chinese culture and art in Taipei. . During the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, he invited many famous Peking opera troupes from Shanghai to perform and gradually created a form of Peking opera with its own cultural identity for Taiwan. During the war years, the theater was devastated by bombs.

In 1989, his son Xian-Rong Koo followed in the family tradition, he established the Koo family's arts and culture fund, and TaipeiEye was also born later with the support of a family. Famous Cantonese opera actor, Mr. Bao Chun Li. He regularly organizes performances at home and abroad. Cantonese opera is known to friends all over the world and TaipeiEye has made significant contributions.

The special feature that makes TaipeiEye's artists different from other stage artists is that they always interact with the audience during the performance and even during the make-up and preparation for the show in the area. Open field for actors. It will not be too difficult for visitors to feel the content of the play because thanks to simultaneous three-language translations of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English shown on both sides of the stage. Get ready to enjoy an evening in a typical cultural space filled with mysterious local colors of international standards, admiring colorful costumes and artists with make-up styles sophisticated, impressive.

Performances are usually held every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. More information can be found on the theater's website https://www.taipeieye.com/en/programs/