A renowned local opera mainly prevalent in Southwestern China's Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Hubei provinces, Sichuan Opera is characterized by unique solos, refined acting, rich percussion and ...

Since the pre-Qin period (Paleolithic Period to 221 BC), Chengdu has been an important cultural town in Southwest China. But what really sets the city apart, culturally, is its opera, which is part of ...

CHONGQING, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Sitting in a garden-style Chinese theater, Sonia Lovett and her team watch a "face-changing" performance in awe. Lovett, a director with Britain's National Theater, is ...

Shi Zhixuan, a three-year-old face change performer, practises at home in Guilin, a tourist resort in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, August 20, 2012. Face change is a famous skill ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- "I felt the U.S. audience understood Sichuan Opera, as they shared sad and happy feelings along with Chinese audience," Chen Qiaoru, an award-winning performer, told ...

Sichuan opera is a vibrant art form that showcases the joys and challenges of daily life in rural China with tales of love, tradition, and family honour. It is the youngest form of Chinese opera, ...

The face changing, or "bian lian" in Chinese, is an important aspect of Chinese Sichuan opera. Performers wave their arms and twist their heads, and their painted masks change again and again and ...

A group of foreign students and teachers visited the Chongqing Sichuan Opera Art Center on Friday to learn about the dramatic form. Sichuan Opera, or Chuan Ju, originated in Sichuan province around ...

Zhang Yan, a delegate to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a first-class actress with Sichuan Opera Troupe, is no stranger to audiences. Chinese know Zhang as a ...

Sichuan opera or Chuanju (å· å‰§; pinyin: chuÄ njù) is a type of Chinese opera originating in China's Sichuan Province. Today's Sichuan opera is a relatively recent synthesis of five historic melodic ...

Huang Li went to art school at the age of 13 to learn how to be a face-changing Sichuan Opera performer against the wishes of her parents. In their opinion, the prospects were grim in the ancient art ...