Director Jia Ding explains why his Opera Hong Kong production of rare Western work 'that talks about China' has to be historically accurate To mark the centenary of composer Giacomo Puccini's death, ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong artist Christie To is only 16, but her aspirations to stardom are rooted in a centuries-old artform fighting extinction: Cantonese opera. In frenetic, capitalist Hong ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) -In a Cantonese opera inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump, a Chinese actor donning a blond wig spars on a Hong Kong stage with a man playing a double of Ukrainian President ...
Even as venue closures and a dwindling audience base raise serious concerns about the survival of Cantonese opera, a new generation of artists, educators and aficionados are trying to revitalize it by ...