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 ...

The artistic director and chief conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Long Yu spent this October the way he's spent all his recent Octobers, dashing from concert hall to concert hall around ...

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 ...

Yuan Shihai, a star of classical Peking opera whose career spanned seven decades, has died. He was 86. Yuan died Dec. 11 of illness, the official Xinhua News Agency and newspapers said, without giving ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.39.1.0076 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/shaw.39.1.0076 Copy URL I would like to thank Stanley and Rodelle Weintraub for their ...

Let's discuss wizard theater and the rise of classical Chinese theater and Beijing Opera. This week we're headed to China to learn about the ancient origins of theater there. We'll look at the early ...

Yuan Shihai, a star of classical Peking opera whose career spanned seven decades, died in December in Beijing. He was 86. Yuan died of an illness, the official Xinhua News Agency and newspapers said, ...

Liu's opera journey began in his hometown of Chizhou, Anhui province, where regional opera traditions run deep. His father ...

Yuan Shihai, 86, a former star of classical Peking opera, died of undisclosed causes Dec. 11 in Beijing. Born in 1916, Yuan began studying the distinctive, high-pitched Peking opera singing style when ...