As we all know, there are four types of role in Peking opera today - namely, the sheng (male role), dan (female role), jing (painted face) and chou (clown). The sheng is the male protagonist ...

Peking Opera is both graceful and agile, requiring performers to learn singing, dancing, acting and acrobatics. It has clearly defined roles: sheng, lao sheng, huadan, qingyi and hualian.

Plays, Peking opera, Cantonese opera ... How do you make it into a two- or two-and-a-half-hour opera?” Sheng said he replied, “Look, someone’s got to do this. And I think you and I could ...

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