Nolbu Legend [Changwon]

# Performance Introduction Park Chang-min's Creative Comic Family Opera One Act, Three Scenes | Composition by Park Chang-min | Libretto by Kim Jae-hee The opera is a comic opera by Park Chang-min that reinterprets , one of the three major pansori novels alongside and , and newly restructures the story around Nolbu rather than Heungbu. It is a work that teaches modern people living in harsh times the meaning of human virtue through satire and wit. # Plot Upon hearing news that Heungbu has become wealthy, Nolbu—who had been ailing with jealousy—visits his brother to learn how he became rich. Driven by greed to become wealthy himself, Nolbu breaks the leg of a living swallow, treats it, and the following spring, receives a gourd seed as a gift from the swallow returning from the south. Excited, he plants the gourd. This time, even more gourds grow than Heungbu's, but what pours out from the gourds are all sorts of demons and strange people. Nolbu loses all his wealth to them and faces ruin. When his very life hangs in the balance, Heungbu and his wife, hearing news of their brother, plead with a general who emerges from the sixth and final gourd to spare Nolbu's life..... Will the greedy Nolbu manage to survive?