The old and nuanced art of Peking opera is working hard to flourish in an era of digital entertainment and incessant screens.

Chinese leaders attended a 2026 New Year gala featuring traditional opera on Tuesday evening in Beijing.

The classic Wuxi Opera The Pearl Pagoda in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu Province. Photo: VCG On Saturday evening, the classic Wuxi Opera (or Xiju) The Pearl Pagoda by the Wuxi Xiju Opera Theatre from ...

Chinese opera is an important feature of the country's art and culture, with a long history and diverse elements such as literature, music, dance and martial arts. The ninth Chinese Opera Culture Week ...

Reporting from San Francisco — The world needs more Chinese opera. China needs it too. China has some 29 opera houses. Only Italy, Germany, the U.S. and Russia have more. China has more ...

The Chinese musical Jiang Jie was staged at the Beijing Performing Arts Center on Saturday and Sunday. Inspired by the classic Chinese opera of the same title, the musical centers on a female martyr, ...

FILE - In this March 1, 2019, file photo, Hong Kong actors Chan Hung-chun, right, and Lung Koon-tin, dressed as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, pose during a press ...

NEW YORK, January 9, 2017 — Chinese opera star Zhang Jun performs his virtuosic re-imagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet in a one-man contemporary performance titled I, Hamlet. (1 hr., 14 min.) Zhang Jun, ...

BEIJING/OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian online browser and advertising firm Opera Software, the takeover target of a Chinese consortium of Internet firms, has embedded a tool in its latest desktop app that ...

Art provokes. And sparks conversations. The Houston Grand Opera's recent production of John Adams' 'Nixon in China' has done just that, drawing strong responses from two critics — Scott Cantrell in ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? He Hui as Cio-Cio-San and Roberto Aronica as Pinkerton in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” Credit: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera The week, Chinese ...