Two friends met up after work late last month in Beijing before heading off to a live show. However, this was no pop concert or star-studded musical, but a Cantonese Opera performance of Farewell My ...

To Wang Binmei, deputy head of the Zhejiang Yue Opera Troupe, working to maintain the vitality of traditional Chinese opera is both her responsibility and life's passion. Wang Binmei, an NPC deputy ...

Traditional Chinese culture is the spiritual lifeline of the Chinese nation and the foundation of China's cultural confidence. Cantonese Opera, as an intangible cultural heritage, is a cultural symbol ...

In a training room in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, more than 30 children are learning martial arts and pantomime, the essentials of Qinqiang, also known as Shaanxi opera. "I can ...

A migrant worker from Central China's Henan Province, who had been in Beijing for over 20 years, gifted himself a rare luxury: For the first time, he spent 100 yuan ($14.30) to enter a theater and ...

China's traditional operas are in. Young Yue Opera actress Chen Lijun recently appeared on the show Ride the Wind 2024, bringing traditional culture to the stage of the popular show and stunning ...

Opera is perceived as the most traditional of the performing arts—its repertory ossified into a canon of 19th-century warhorses, its performance style determined by the constraints of the proscenium ...

The only “concept” behind British director Michael Grandage’s Don Giovanni is bringing out the crosscurrents of desire that surge throughout this overpowering masterpiece with as much clarity as ...