Opera · ST10818
Gezai Opera (Taiwanese Opera)
Plays sung in Minnan to seven-syllable and weeping tunes, homely as the speech of home.
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Mural guide
Under a big banyan by a temple square a performer in the weeping-female role laments behind her sleeve, a fiddler beside her plays a coconut-shell fiddle, children squat round watching, and in the foreground hang the banyan's aerial roots.
A Minnan-language opera that grew from Yilan folk song and is performed on both sides of the Taiwan Strait