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Opera Cuckoo Mountain

Date: Jan 24-25－7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-680 yuan

The story takes place at the initial stage of China's Second Revolutionary Civil War (1924-1927). On September 9th, 1927, the CPC leads and launches the Autumn Harvest Uprising in the junction of Hunan and Jiangxi. Workers and peasants' revolutions and armed struggles quickly spread eastern Hunan and western Jiangxi. In the junction of Hunan and Jiangxi, stimulated by the Autumn Harvest Uprising, Lei Gang calls on the poverty-stricken villagers to rise in revolt, and sets up peasant self-defense troop on Cuckoo Mountain. But he suffers from ups and downs three times, and he is on the verge of failure.