Why do the musical instruments follow the opera singers? How do the choreography and arias serve the storytelling? "These discussions made me realize how Peking Opera is deeply rooted in Chinese ...

China has more than 300 forms of traditional opera, of which Peking Opera is the most popular. Peking Opera evolved from Kunqu Opera, an even more ancient art of drama listed by UNESCO in 2001 ...

Zhou Li portrays Qin Liangyu in a classic Peking Opera piece.[Photo provided to China Daily] Nearly every month, Zhou Li, deputy director of the Chongqing Peking Opera company, leads her troupe to ...

BEIJING, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Zhao Yanxia, a renowned Peking opera artist, died from an illness at the age of 97 in Beijing on Wednesday, according to the Jingju Theater Company of Beijing.