Around 70 expats living in Beijing, including embassy staff, international chamber of commerce personnel and students, attended a Peking Opera salon on Saturday to get a taste of traditional Chinese ...

Around 50 expats living in Beijing, including diplomats, chamber of commerce personnel, foreign journalists and students, attended a Peking Opera salon staged by the Fenglei (Wind and Thunder) 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 ...

An exhibition that opened on Dec 31 at the Capital Museum in Beijing commemorates the 120th anniversary of the Peking Opera school Fuliancheng. At the heart of the exhibition lies a stage designed to ...

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 ...

Gender reversal is common in Peking Opera. Some veteran male artists playing female roles have created lively artistic images on stage through their excellent performing skills. And females have ...

The passing of a Peking Opera maestro this week has left the nation mourning the loss of another master. Mei Baojiu, son of legendary Chinese theater mogul Mei Lanfang, died Monday in Beijing at the ...

BEIJING “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 ...