Although there are more than 360 ancient local operas in China, Peking Opera is known as China's national opera, despite its comparatively young 200-year history. Although it is called Peking Opera, ...

In the backstage of the Mei Lanfang Theatre in Beijing, Jiang Meiyi, a young performer from the National Peking Opera Company, is applying her makeup and dressing for the upcoming performance. As the ...

Five young female students at the Shanghai Theatre Academy have become online celebrities by singing pop songs to the tunes of Peking Opera works. Numerous netizens who have watched footage of the ...

Editor's note: Peking opera, a performing art that integrates singing, reciting, dancing, acting and acrobatics with instrumental accompaniment, is regarded as China's national opera. In 2010, it was ...

Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her other leg high and grasps the ...

Peking Opera artists from the Jingju Theater Company of Beijing and students from the Beijing Opera Art's College perform in a gala on Nov 7. [Photo provided to China Daily] A Peking Opera gala took ...

Editor's note: The hope for the China-U.S. relationship lies in the people, with grassroots connections as its foundation. While the two countries have experienced ups and downs in their bilateral ...

The event offers an exceptional interactive experience of Beijing Opera-themed intangible cultural heritage, including Colored Clay Beijing Opera Masks, Dough Sculpture, Paper Cutting, and Circular ...

‘Watch out for that sword," the rehearsal director shouted. “I don’t want anybody’s head getting cut off because you don’t know what you’re doing." Lots of weapons were on a stage of the Beijing Opera ...

BEIJING (AP) — Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her other leg high ...