- Princess Chang Ping
The story of Princess Chang Ping (帝女花) is a Chinese
legend about aprincess and her lover at the end of theMing Dynasty . It has been made into aCantonese Opera byTang Ti-sheng , a very prolific Cantonese opera adaptor of the early to mid-1900s. The premiere was featured in theLee Theatre on7 June ,1957 and the opera has achieved amazing box office results since then.The popularity of the show was attributed partly to the fact that it featured the eminent Cantonese Opera stars
Yam Kim Fai andBak Sheut Sin of the 1950s.A film version of the opera was released in
1975 , directed byJohn Woo and starredLong Jin-seng andMei Xue-si , disciples ofYam Kim Fai andBak Sheut Sin .There was a series about this story made by ATV in 1979 titled Princess Cheung Ping (武侠帝女花) starred
Damian Lau ,Michelle Yim andDavid Chiang .
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