Stepping onto the Peking Opera stage as a Daomadan

In the backstage of the Mei Lanfang Theatre in Beijing, Jiang Meiyi, a young performer from the National Peking Opera Company ...
Reuters

Chinese opera face-changing: it's a kind of magic

CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese performer He Hongqing can change his facial expressions, and make up, on stage in a flash, but it's not due to skills learned at drama school. The man deemed China's ...
Indy Week

Cultural cross-pollination in Shanghai Huai Opera performance

Despite the current wariness surrounding Sino-American relations, Shanghai’s Huai Ju Troupe received an unambiguously warm welcome from the audience for their second U.S. performance ever (their U.S.
China Daily

A weeklong showcase of traditional Chinese opera

A series of live performances of traditional Chinese opera is being staged from Feb 3 to 10 at Beijing Tianqiao Performing ...
Digital Journal

‘Nixon in China’: an opera with fresh relevance

Star soprano Renee Fleming said the opera highlights the fragility of world peace - Copyright POOL/AFP/File Chris Jackson Star soprano Renee Fleming said the opera ...
CNN

Chinese opera singer sparks fury after performing in bombed Ukrainian theater

Chinese opera singer Wang Fan has sparked a diplomatic row after she was filmed singing the Soviet war song “Katyusha” inside the Mariupol Drama Theater in Ukraine where hundreds were killed last year ...