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 at Chongqing Sichuan Opera ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Traditional art form with a history dating back centuries hits a high note again. Lei Yin knows the world is a stage for Sichuan Opera as its appeal is going global and audiences around the world ...

The second film of China-born Canadian filmmaker Johnny Ma, 'To Live to Sing' deals with a Sichuan Opera troupe and its manager's struggle when her theater is threatened with demolition. By Clarence ...

Audience applaud after the performance of the Chinese Sichuan opera "Li Yaxian" during the Sibiu International Theater Festival in Sibiu, Romania, on June 23, 2019. The festival gathered some 3,300 ...

A Chinese performer has been wowing crowds in Sichuan province with his face changing skills. He Hongqing is an expert in the ancient art which is at the heart of traditional Sichuan Opera. He is able ...

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 ...

Painting a paper mask on his little riverboat, Wang Bianlian is a man at the edge of defeat. His wife left him because he was too poor and his son died shortly after. To pass on the secrets of his art ...