Shi Pei Pu, a Beijing opera singer and spy whose sexually convoluted love affair with a French Embassy worker created one of the strangest cases in international espionage and was the inspiration ...

Reporting from Beijing — — Thomas Glenn, a bespectacled tenor from San Francisco, waited for the piano bars to swell, took a deep breath and tried again to screech correctly. But what ...

Peking Opera singer Mei Lanfang remembered in London By Zhang Kexin in London (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-10-22 19:58 ...

Using a Peking Opera melody, it was performed on stage by Teresa Teng, Fei Yuqing and numerous other well-known singers. In the 1990s, many songs featured elements of Peking Opera, ...

Famous Peking Opera singer visits Taicang ( chinadaily.com.cn ) Updated: 2014-06-17 Print: Mail: Large Medium Small: 0: Shang Changrong, a famous Peking Opera artist, ...

For decades now, Peking Opera has seemed to be slowly playing out its last act. Opera troupes often have no money to pay the players. When they do stage a performance of the subtle, 200-year-old ...

Korean opera singer Sumi Jo is one of the best-loved sopranos of her generation ... She also performed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2002 Football World Cup in South Korea.

Li Zhengkuan, 26, is among the present-day jingge singers who have attracted a following. One of his best-known songs, Wujiapo 2021, is adapted from a passage in the Peking Opera drama Red Maned ...