Editor's note: Yueju opera, or Cantonese opera, is a form of Chinese opera. It combines Mandarin operatic traditions with Cantonese dialect, and incorporates and develops singing and acting techniques ...

Pretty, sweet, and always putting on a big smile is how those who know Wang Wanna describe her. On stage, Wang always takes on a totally different look and persona. As a Yueju Opera actress, she plays ...

The new Dream of the Red Chamber is staged at Zhengyici theater, a traditional wooden theater with a more than 300-year history. Photo provided to China Daily Yueju Opera, with its melodious arias, ...

Courtesy of the Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yueju Opera Troupe. The audience held its breath, eyes fixed on the stage in eager ...

SHAOXING, China, Aug. 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Fifth Chinese Shaoxing Opera (Yueju) Festival concluded with big success on August 20 in its birthplace, Shengzhou, a county-level city of ...

BEIJING, Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- While traditional cultural art forms presumably tend to struggle in resonating with younger generations, China's latest Yueju Opera production, New Dragon Gate ...

2 Video: First Look at Michael Mayer-Directed LA TRAVIATA at The Metropolitan Opera 3 Video: First Look at THE CRUCIBLE at Washington National Opera To commemorate the late Yueju Opera master Xu Yulan ...

China's Yueju Opera, the graceful "southern sister" of Beijing Opera, celebrated its 120th birthday last week. What began in 1906 on a makeshift stage of upturned rice buckets in a village in East ...

BEIJING, Dec. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from China.org.cn on traditional Chinese operas: In the blink of an eye, a fine-looking girl turned into a handsome young "man," showing off ...

The Chinese tradition of Yueju opera combines Mandarin operatic traditions and Cantonese dialect. Rooted in the Cantonese-speaking provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi in south-eastern China, Yueju ...