University Opera Theatre stages ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ The Chinese Heritage Foundation of Minneapolis/St. Paul and the San Francisco Opera commissioned the work, based on an 18th-century Chinese ...

The minimalist stage design evokes spiritual depth.[Photo provided to China Daily] "Chinese opera has its singing styles and ...

Tiger Tales is an award-winning production that draws on China's two-thousand-year history of shadow puppetry. A wise old Rabbit recounts stories from her eventful life to her young ...

This year marks the 120th anniversary of Chinese cinema, which began in 1905 with the film “Dingjun Mountain.” Fittingly for a country with a rich, centuries-old opera tradition, this first domestic ...

Composer Huang Ruo long dreamed of adapting the classic Chinese tale “Journey to the West” and its mythical character the Monkey King into an opera, but thought that ambition was a pipe dream. “I grew ...

The University of Michigan Department of Music Theory hosted a lecture Thursday afternoon by alum Nancy Rao, distinguished professor of music and Chinese American music at Rutgers University. The ...

Behind the dazzling costumes lies a story of power, patriarchy, and women reclaiming their voice. Think Mulan was one of a kind? Chinese opera’s been full of warrior women like her for centuries. Meet ...