BEIJING: Peking Opera master performer Cheng Yanqiu and playwright Weng Ouhong once collaborated in the production of Suo Lin Nang, a bittersweet tale with a happy ending. The production premiered ...

Peking Opera master performer Cheng Yanqiu and playwright Weng Ouhong once collaborated in the production of Suo Lin Nang, a bittersweet tale with a happy ending. The production premiered in 1940 ...

The movie is included in the Peking Opera Film Project that preserves classics through cinematic techniques. [Photo by Zhu Zhaohui/For China Daily] Teng recalls filming during the coldest winter ...

Peking Opera is one of the oldest and most popular forms of traditional Chinese opera. We watch young students at the capital’s prestigious Peking Opera School practising for a performance in ce ...

The change was welcomed by Taipei but triggered one of the strongest rebukes from Beijing since Donald Trump returned to the White House. China’s ruling Communist Party claims the self-governing ...

So this is what opera can be today. Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has never flinched from choosing challenging subjects, ever since his first opera, an adaptation of Steven Berkoff’s violent ...

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Shenyang J-16 strike jet releases pyrotechnics ‘in close proximity’ to Australian surveillance plane in contested airspace Australia has accused Beijing of “unsafe” military conduct after ...

China touted its robotics advancements through a fleet of dancing humanoid robots at a festival in Beijing. Dozens of performers — human and robotic — took to the stage on Tuesday during the ...

The singers are fresh graduates from I Sing Beijing — an intensive summer study that combined Chinese language and opera repertoire. On February 16, I Sing Beijing makes its U.S. debut onstage at ...