Peking Opera is both graceful and agile, requiring performers to learn singing, dancing, acting and acrobatics. It has clearly defined roles: sheng, lao sheng, huadan, qingyi and hualian.

As the troupe faces operational difficulties and struggles for survival, the leading Peking Opera actor, Jin Sheng, who specializes in wusheng (martial arts male roles), takes on the ...

BEIJING: Peking Opera master performer Cheng Yanqiu and playwright Weng Ouhong once collaborated in the production of Suo Lin Nang, a bittersweet tale with a happy ending. The production premiered ...

Painted Faces is a dramatised biopic of Yu Jim-yuen, the master of the China Drama Academy, a Peking opera school in Hong Kong attended by actors Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung Kam-bo and Yuen Biao among ...

Plays, Peking opera, Cantonese opera ... How do you make it into a two- or two-and-a-half-hour opera?” Sheng said he replied, “Look, someone’s got to do this. And I think you and I could ...