According to official North Korean reports, in April 1968, Kim Jong-il suggested that another revolutionary opera, Sea of Blood, be adapted for a film.
It played a key role in producing the revolutionary opera "A Flower Girl" (1972), which it has performed 1,300 times.
Originally, eight revolutionary operas were produced, eighteen by the end of the period.
"Entertainment was a 'dirty bourgeois word'," but the revolutionary operas were supposed to be something else, "a proletarian statement."
She becomes a leftist and performs revolutionary operas.
Nearby a woman carried a boombox on her shoulders and belted out the squeaky treble of a revolutionary opera.
This music includes a symphony based on the theme of The Sea of Blood, which has also been made into a revolutionary opera.
The Flower Girl, a revolutionary opera allegedly penned by Kim Il-Sung himself, was turned into a movie, the most popular one in North Korea.
Mr. Guan, an American citizen who was born in Beijing, is performing excerpts from traditional and revolutionary opera in the play.
"Cav" and "Pag" were meant to be revolutionary operas, and they are.