Chinese opera
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Traditional Chinese opera, or Xiqu, is a form of musical theatre in China with roots going back to the early periods in China. It is an amalgamation of various art forms that existed in ancient China,
Acrobatic performance in Shao opera (紹劇), demonstrating the martial arts element (打) of Chinese opera. Shanghai, 2014.
Theatre play, Prosperous Suzhou by Xu Yang, 1759
Leaf from an album of one hundred Peking opera characters, late Qing dynasty. Ink and color on silk. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sichuan opera in Chengdu
Peking opera
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Peking opera, or Beijing opera, is the dominant form of Chinese opera, which combines instrumental music, vocal performance, mime, martial arts, dance and acrobatics. It arose in Beijing in the mid-Qi
Chinese opera
…identify the roles portrayed by the performers. There are over a hundred regional branches of traditional Chinese opera today. In the 20th century, the Peking opera emerged in popularity and has come to be known as the "national theatre" of China, but other genres like Yue opera, Cantonese opera, Yu opera, kunqu…
Peking opera in Shanghai, 2014
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The character Sun Wukong at the Peking opera from Journey to the West
One of 100 portraits of Peking opera characters housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art