No embroidered silk costumes. No colorful make-up. No traditional stage. With only the CD background music, a middle school music teacher in Beijing is demonstrating to her class a solo vocal piece ...

Peking Opera costumes, mainly made of satin, crepe and silk and decorated with various meticulously embroidered patterns, tell a character's sex and status at first glance, marking off people from all ...

The Orphan of Zhao, one of the major classics of Peking Opera, is staged at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University on Dec 7. LU HUIQUAN/FOR CHINA DAILY The Orphan of Zhao, one of ...

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 in ...

The China National Peking Opera Company is bringing Warrior Women of Yang and Farewell My Concubine to Sadler’s Wells in November. Of the many forms of local traditional opera in China, Peking opera ...

Peking Opera is a Chinese theatrical art dating back to the 18th Century. The performers use speech, song, dance, and combat movements to tell stories which entertain audiences from emperors to ...

While they may differ only slightly in costume and makeup, all traditional opera forms, including Peking opera (京剧), are, strictly speaking, "regional," in that each is based on the music and dialect ...