In recent years, the Peking Opera Theatre of China has experimented with incorporating western symphonic music in its productions.

Peking opera is a performance art incorporating singing, reciting, acting, martial arts. Although widely practised throughout China, its performance centres on Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. Peking ...

It all began with a wooden-bodied, hand-cranked camera, a Peking Opera star, and a man with a vision named Ren Qingtai.

In 2008, Kunqu opera was officially inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of ...

Plays, Peking opera, Cantonese opera ... as the University of Minnesota’s University Opera Theatre is presenting a version reorchestrated for a smaller ensemble, with the San Francisco Opera ...

Masters such as Mei Lanfang worked with some of the best playwrights and theater artists of their time. Together, they pushed Peking Opera to an unprecedented artistic level. "I hope to work with ...

What inspired Yao to adapt Verdi's La Traviata for a smaller production was a concert she gave earlier this year in Beijing's ...

Showing Opera's Charm Zhang was one of the first graduates, with a bachelor's degree, from the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. She graduated in 1982; shortly after, she joined the National ...

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 ...