Editor's note: Peking opera, a performing art that integrates singing, reciting, dancing, acting and acrobatics with instrumental accompaniment, is regarded as China's national opera. In 2010, it was ...

Scenes from Farewell My Concubine, performed at Shanghai Oriental Art Center on March 14, starring Shi Yihong as Yuji. CHINA DAILY Throughout her illustrious career, 53-year-old Shanghai native Shi ...

BEIJING (AP) — 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 ...

Alyssa, 7, gets har face painted as members of the Taipei Li-Yuan Peking Opera Theatre visit the Dr. Phillips YMCA summer camp as part of their community cultural outreach program, on Thursday, August ...

BEIJING — When “The Legend of the White Snake” opens Wednesday at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, an American audience will get its first glimpse of Zhang Huoding, one of China’s biggest ...

Peking opera Red Cliff will embark on its journey West to European audiences this week. Produced by China's National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Red Cliff will premiere from June 29 to July ...

Five young female students at the Shanghai Theatre Academy have become online celebrities by singing pop songs to the tunes of Peking Opera works. Numerous netizens who have watched footage of the ...

BEIJING – “Why are you going to a Peking opera? It’s slow, boring and you can’t even understand what they’re saying half the time!” Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...