The play is not a stereotyped personal profile of Mei Lanfang, a Peking Opera master who spent a lifetime on the opera stage. The play shows Mei's career and life through a real incident.

A new Peking Opera production, New Dragon Inn, which has been adapted from a movie by the same name, will premiere at the Shanghai Grand Theatre on April 30. The 1992 movie starring Lin Ching-hsia ...

Peking opera dates to the late 1790s, ... The actors play four roles: male, female, painted-face male, and clown. The characters can be loyal or treacherous, good or bad, beautiful or ugly ...

Peking opera dates to the late 1790s, ... The actors play four roles: male, female, painted-face male, and clown. The characters can be loyal or treacherous, good or bad, beautiful or ugly ...

Li Zhengkuan performs the lead role in the new Peking Opera Ma Jiefu. ... Titled Jia'ren Xi, or Play of Beautiful Women, the lyrics state: "Drums and gongs beat again, and I enter onto the stage.

The first story she told in the series is Da Tan Er, a famous play in Peking Opera. In Shi's cartoon, the usurping story from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) was told through cute and lifelike cartoons.

Nestled like an ugly duckling among the new high-rises of this satellite town, the Peking Opera School no longer is padlocked at sunset and its students aren’t cloistered for nine years or caned ...

In Peking Opera, men often play the cross-dressing role of dan, but what is less known is that talented actresses also play the parts of men. Off stage, Wang defies tradition.

A typical example is director Chen Kaige's "Mei LanFang," the biographical portrait of the Peking opera legend who became a Chinese national hero.

The Peking Opera will perform SIX CHAPTERS OF A FLOATING LIFE by Shen Fu (Qing Dynasty) at the Multi-functional Theatre on March 6-8, 2010. Dates: Mar. 06-08, 2010?19:30 Price: 300 200 120 RMB ...

Li Zhengkuan performs the lead role in the new Peking Opera Ma Jiefu. ... Two years ago, he directed a Peking Opera work based on the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.