London Chinese Radio’s New Sounds of China music podcast has reached the end of its second season, hosted by music journalist and musicologist Paul Kendall and guitarist, vocalist and Beijing opera ...

In the backstage of the Mei Lanfang Theatre in Beijing, Jiang Meiyi, a young performer from the National Peking Opera Company, is applying her makeup and dressing for the upcoming performance. As 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 ...

BEIJING — 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 and ...

Stepping into Huguang Huiguan, or Huguang Guild Hall in Beijing, people who come to watch a resident musical may find the venue a heart of tradition and innovation. It comes alive with Jinfeng Yulu, ...

He Wei, deputy director of the Digital Creative Media Research Center at Beijing Normal University, addresses the event, Sept 20, 2025. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] "The vitality of culture ...

The Beijing Culture and Art Foundation-funded project, "An Immersive Peking Opera Experience: The White Snake VR Interactive Narrative Exhibition," opened at Qianmen on Saturday. The innovative ...

Ding Xiaojun stars as Bai Suzhen in The Legend of White Snake. This year marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of Mei Lanfang, considered as one of the greatest Peking Opera artists in modern ...