5. Opera Festival:
The festival of Chinese musical theatre is
a perfect amalgamation of folk art forms
like songs, dances, acrobatics, make-up
art, and costume.
6. Opera Festival:
Traditional Chinese opera (traditional
Chinese: 戲曲; simplified Chinese: 戏曲;
pinyin: Xì qǔ; Jyut ping: hei3 kuk1), or Xi
qu, is a form of musical theatre in China
with roots going back to the early periods
in China.
7. Opera Festival:
The festival aims at exhibiting excellent
Peking Opera works, promoting
exchanges among outstanding artists,
attracting the masses, and promoting the
development of the Peking Opera.
8. Peking Opera:
Peking opera is the most
dominant form of Chinese
opera, which combines music,
vocal performance, mime,
dance and acrobatics.
Peking opera is one of the
five major traditional operas
in China.
9. Peking Opera
Peking Opera is more than just music
and singing; it also combines drama,
dancing, martial arts and acrobatics,
which makes it one of the most
multifaceted theatrical forms in the
world.
10. Roles in Peking Opera:
Over the past hundreds of years, the
roles of Peking opera have been
simplified to today’s Sheng, Dan,
Jing and Chou, known as the four
major roles in Peking opera.
11. Culture and Peking Opera
Peking Opera is a form of traditional
Chinese theater that originated in
Beijing in the late 18th century
Peking opera is sung and recited using
primarily Beijing dialect.
12. Story: Havoc in the Heavenly
Kingdom
Length: about 2 hours
Group size: about 40 people
This program is one of the most popular
Peking Opera programs and the story is
familiar to western audience. It has been
recently performed in France.
