Stepping onto the Peking Opera stage as a Daomadan

In the backstage of the Mei Lanfang Theatre in Beijing, Jiang Meiyi, a young performer from the National Peking Opera Company ...
Newsday

In a breakneck digital era, the ancient art of Peking opera works hard to keep flourishing

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 ...
Global Times

Peking Opera master lives on

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 ...
The Washington Post

Peking's 'Female Generals': Marching to a Different Drum

A first encounter with Peking Opera -- and it is likely that most of the audience was experiencing just that when the China National Peking Opera Company presented "Female Generals of the Yang Family" ...
WSLS 10

In a breakneck digital era, the ancient art of Peking opera works hard to keep flourishing

Read full article: SWVA roads improve, still have areas of ice BEIJING – Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a ...