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

The dramatic masks and costumes of Peking Opera are world-renowned. Famous Peking Opera actors and actresses over the years included Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu, Ma Lianliang, Zhou Xinfang and Du ...

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

In 1997, one of CCTV (China Central Television)'s overseas-production teams, working on the Spring Festival gala, asked Zhang to perform Peking Opera with Dashan (Mark Henry Rowswell, a Canadian actor ...

Peking opera is a performance art incorporating singing ... Performance is characterized by a formulaic and symbolic style with actors and actresses following established choreography for movements of ...

The performances to come are also written by Luo but for operas of other regions, including Yangzhou Opera from Jiangsu, ...