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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

File photo taken on Aug. 19, 2012 shows an actor performs face-changing, a stunt technique in Sichuan opera, at the Wuhou Shrine Museum in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province.

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 ...