The Theater of Metaverse
Introduction It seems that the mission of the father of arts, “theatre”, as well as...
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Liu Xiaoyi’s Creative Revolution
Liu Xiaoyi is a man on a mission. His juice is an imagined world where artists are in the driver’s...
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Liu Xiaoyi’s Creative Revolution
Liu Xiaoyi is a man on a mission. His juice is an imagined world where artists are in the driver’s...
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Is There a Right Way to Make Chinese Opera?
With countless adaptations, The Peony Pavilion is China’s answer to Swan Lake. But recent attempts...
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A Beloved Chinese Classic Gets a Weightless Adaptation
Kunqu opera has made a commercial comeback over the past two decades, but a recent adaptation of...
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“Farewell My Concubine” Is Rekindling Hong Kong’s Interest in Cantonese Opera
Three years before the Xiqu Centre opened as Hong Kong’s first purpose-built center for Chinese...
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Why Hong Kong Is Surprisingly Fertile Ground For Western Opera
Being one of China’s Three Tenors meant that Easter was no holiday for Warren Mok. The opera giant...
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For The Love Of Kunqu: Hong Kong Chinese Opera Festival 2018
Why We Recommend it This annual festival stages enduring Chinese opera performances across various...
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Reinterpreting The Tradition: A Contemporary Retelling Of Tang Xianzu’s “The Handan Dream” By The Guangzhou Dramatic Arts Centre
Conceived in 2016 in Guangzhou and previously performed in Beijing and St. Petersburg, the...
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Fredric Mao Blasts Away Convention in a New Cantonese Opera
This article is brought to you by the 46th edition of the Hong Kong Arts Festival. If all you know...
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Colliding Traditions Keep Chinese Opera Alive and Well
Chinese opera is as expansive and diverse as China itself – and it continues to thrive in the face...
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How to Re-Learn Ways of Seeing, Listening, Reading, and (Story)Telling: “Flee by Night” by Danny Yung
I had long heard of Director [Danny] Yung’s trilogy The Outcast General, Tears of Barren Hill, and...
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Law Wing-fai’s Atmospheric Music Theatre, “Beyond the Senses,” Staged in London
Readers who are familiar with Hong Kong’s New Wave cinema would not be strangers to Hong Kong...
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Should Chinese Opera Westernize to Find Global Audience?
Popularizing the country’s musical tradition means combining mainstream appeal with traditional...
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“I, Wu Song”: A One-Man Cantonese Opera – Without Songs or Words
Anyone familiar with Chinese opera would recognise the role Kelvin Ng Kwok-wa is playing next....
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Amanda Li in “Dream of the Red Chamber”
When Amanda Li steps onto the stage in the classic Dream of the Red Chamber, she’ll do so having...
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