At the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the new work 'Red Wedding Bed', based on the Liyuan opera classic, retells the tale of Chen San and Wu Niang The Fujian Province Liyuan Opera Inheritance Centre ...

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, ...

A view of Mei Lanfang performing in 1930 Collection of the Chinese National Academy of Arts / Courtesy of the China Institute of America By 1930, Mei Lanfang had already achieved superstardom as an ...

Dozens of schools of Chinese opera are taking the center stage in Boxing county, East China's Shandong Province, as a national exhibition aims to ensure these "living fossils" of culture not only ...

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 ...