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By Global Times Published: May 05, 2021 06:33 PM
Promotional material for opera gala Photo: Courtesy for Beijing Performance & Arts Group
Promotional material for opera gala Photo: Courtesy for Beijing Performance & Arts Group
The Beijing Performance & Arts Group is staging a series of performances as part of its May performance season which began Friday, including 21 dance and opera performances. The opening performance features five China s traditional operas including Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera and Qu Opera.
According to the gala s director Kong Jie, it selects classic operas sections that have been popular for decades and capture historical moments, like
Dragon Beard Ditch from Chinese writer Lao She and Ming Dynasty s dramatist Tang Xianzu s
Staging stories of a literary luminary By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-28 07:45 Share CLOSE
My Ideal Life, which will premiere at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing on Dec 29 and 30, will conclude the fourth edition of the Lao She Theater Festival. [Photo provided to China Daily]
The fourth Lao She Theater Festival invokes new approaches to examining the life and work of one of China s most illustrious men of letters, Chen Nan reports.
When director and scriptwriter Jiang Tonglin was commissioned to create a new play adapted from Chinese writer Lao She s (1899-1966) works for the Lao She Theater Festival, he decided to combine six of the luminary s works into one play.