Young Peking opera artists are devoting years to mastering its demanding techniques, hoping to win over today's audiences ...

A Peking opera troupe performs at the 49th International Festival of Carthage at the Roman Theatre of Carthage in Tunis July 14, 2013. REUTERS/Anis Mili By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - With ...

Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a ...

The China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG) will present two new Peking opera productions at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, September 2 and 3, 2015. The two productions, Legend of the ...

Image Source: New York Chinese Opera Society The term “Peking Opera” actually refers to a traditional theatrical art form, not a music style from a certain geographic location. Peking Opera, also ...

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VPAC's brand new Play Date series begins with direct from Beijing -- The National Acrobats and Circus of the People's Republic of China performing PEKING DREAMS October 4 at 3:00 pm in the Great Hall ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present "Adventures of the Monkey King: A Beijing Opera" at 8 p.m. on Oct. 8 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for 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!” That was the reaction Karolina Shab, a 26-year-old Polish student ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - With lavishly embroidered costumes, elaborate makeup and acrobatics, a troupe of nearly 90 singers, actors and musicians of the Peking Opera begins a special U.S. tour on ...