Farewell My Concubine 1

With a severed finger, he entered the opera world, and the dream of the stage bound him for life. After enduring the rigors of opera school, little Douzi transformed into the peerless Cheng Dieyi. Together with Duan Xiaolou, he became the toast of Beiping, yet became entangled in love both onstage and off. Swept along by the tides of history, from the Republic of China era to the Cultural Revolution, an opera about Farewell My Concubine lays bare the madness and sorrow of an actor’s life, composing a bloodstained elegy to art and humanity.