"Hao! Hao! Hao!" shouted the audience, to express their appreciation. They were saluting a Peking Opera performer who had just finished a marvelous "qiangbei," a movement in which he twirled himself ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company (Peking Opera) will bring "The Revenge of Prince Zi Dan" ("Hamlet") to life at 8 p.m. Friday (Sept. 23). This performance is presented by Purdue ...

Concordia theatre student Natasha Perry-Fagant is playing the role of the goddess Thetis in the Theatre Department’s upcoming production of Peleus and Thetis. In this blog entry, she recounts the ...

Li Enjie Photo: Courtesy of the Jingju Theater Company of Beijing Before Li Enjie became director of the Jingju (Peking Opera) Theater Company of Beijing, he was a military man - and it shows. Li is ...

BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Using modern sound, light and digital stage effects, China's traditional Peking Opera is appealing to young people in a fashionable and innovative way, as the classic art ...

The Jingju Theater Company of Beijing is performing 20 of the best operas in its repertoire for audiences until Sunday. To inherit, promote and develop Peking Opera and effectively conserve ...

The writer of the article appeals for renaming Peking Opera its Chinese Pinyin form of “Jingju,” from People’s Daily: As China is quickening its tempo going global, cross-cultural communication has ...

They start as young as nine and wear costumes so lavish, heavy and painful some of them faint. As Chinese opera heads for Britain, our writer goes behind the scenes at its Beijing HQ An elaborate ...

(HawaiiNewsNow) - Beijing Opera is coming to the University of Hawaii. "The White Snake" is a lavish production filled with music, drama and martial arts battles. Frederick Lau, the show's musical ...

A student performs a classical musical piece from Peking Opera at the cultural festival held at a local primary school in Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei province, on June 11, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] ...