Everything You Need to Know about Chinese Opera

Arias to water sleeves: Students bridge performance, language through Peking opera

Traditional Chinese operas, once considered old fashioned, are on a mission to become cool again. There are more than 100 distinct forms of Chinese opera – Peking from northern China, Kunqu from the east, and Sichuan from the west. In fact, Peking opera was inscribed on UNESCO's list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010, demonstrating its importance to world culture. Chinese opera singer Gabrielle Chan has been performing the Cantonese style from southern China for the past 30

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