Azalea Mountain / 杜鹃山 / Cultural Revolution Movies / Revolutionary ballets DVD Audio: Chinese / No Subtitles / 杨春霞 Yang Chunxia, 马永安 Ma Yongan

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《革命样板戏：杜鹃山》描写了1928年湘赣边界一支农民自发组织的自卫队，在柯湘党代表的正确领导下不断发展壮大，并会同主力部队歼灭敌靖卫团，后被改编为工农红军，开赴井冈山的传奇故事。 Toward the end of the Cultural Revolution, the ballet Red Detachment of Women was adapted to a Beijing opera, and the Beijing opera The Azalea Mountain was adapted to a ballet, but they did not have a chance to become as popular as their earlier versions, and the ballet version of The Azalea Mountain never got officially released. / Although these works bear unmistakable political overtones of the time when they were created, they nonetheless had significant artistic values, and for this reason, some of the works remain popular decades after the Cultural Revolution. / The three most popular Peking operas are The Legend of the Red Lantern, Shajiabang, and Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. And the ballet that still shows a considerable vitality today is the Red Detachment of Women, the one that was presented to Richard Nixon, President of the United States, who visited China in 1972, seven years before the normalization of the Sino-US relationship. This performance was reenacted in a slightly surreal form in John Adams's opera Nixon in China (1985–87).