A Peking Opera practitioner since age 10, Zhou earned the Plum Performance Award in 2013, China's top honor for traditional Chinese theatrical art. She sees traditional Chinese opera as a powerful ...

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

A record 21 Peking Opera films from the Peking Opera Film Project are being screened during the 15th Beijing International Film Festival, with two new productions having premiered Monday.

Later, Zhang performed with the National Peking Opera Company during tours of European, American and Southeast Asian countries. During the tours, she started to make full use of Western theatrical ...

Based on an episode in Luo Guanzhong's historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and starred Tan Xinpei. The film consisted of a recording of a Beijing opera performance of the Battle of Mount ...

For centuries, Peking Opera has been more than just performance – it is a dialogue between movement and stillness, sound and silence, past and present. It is the art of transformation, where a single ...

It all began with a wooden-bodied, hand-cranked camera, a Peking Opera star, and a man with a vision named Ren Qingtai. By Mathew Scott We’ve no way of knowing for certain whether or not Ren ...

Based on the chilling true story.

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