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 ...

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 ...

People's Park offers a glimpse of the real Chengdu, complete with the traditional tea-drinking culture, opera, and even a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...