He is considered one of China’s greatest 20th-century opera performers, and his influence on the art form is still felt today ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Wei Hai Min, a pre-eminent Chinese opera actress and singer, recently graced the Staten Island Academy stage for a student participation demonstration. The assembly, for grades ...

CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese performer He Hongqing can change his facial expressions, and make up, on stage in a flash, but it's not due to skills learned at drama school. The man deemed China's ...

Zhao Jinyu still remembers the time she gave away tickets to her Kunqu opera performance — and couldn’t find anyone who wanted them. “Too elegant,” her friends said. “Makes me sleepy.” That was 2005, ...

HUDSON, N.Y. — On Thursday, Oct. 13, Halloween arrives early at the historic Hudson Opera House with the U.S. premiere of the Chinese opera “Painted Skin,” a supernatural story of a couple tormented ...

SHANGHAI – From “Romeo and Juliet” to “The Count of Monte Cristo,” Lisa Jia claims to have watched almost every Chinese version of foreign musicals. Having often been disappointed by poor translations ...

True to the spirit of those Russian women, the world pauses on this day to celebrate the achievements of women. This year to mark International Women’s Day, the United Nations is calling for “Rights.

A Peking Opera performer clad in embroidered armor raises her spear as gongs reverberate throughout a studio in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. There is no traditional stage or theater ...

Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Vocal and instrumental excerpts from the traditional operas of China. Sung in Chinese.

Older generations of Chinese Americans in the Bay Area revel at the sight of traditional Chinese opera performances. But younger folks? Not so much. That's why several San Francisco teenagers launched ...