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	Chinese Opera Stars Find Haven, and Hardship, in U.S.
		For many Chinese, the sight of Shi Jiehua shelving videotapes or Cai Qingling delivering takeout food is akin to the notion of Luciano Pavarotti scrubbing pots at a pasta joint in Little Italy.
		A dining table is heaped with immigration documents for opera singers, grant applications to federal and state arts agencies, invitations to opera troupes in China.
		While she was gone, Cai and Chen performed at a gala opera with two visiting stars from Shanghai before several hundred kunqu aficionados at the Taipei Theater, on the Avenue of the Americas at 49th Street in Manhattan.
	www.ishipress.com /opera-ch.htm (1792 words)

	Extras ~ Lady White Snake ~ About Chinese Opera
		Chinese opera evolved from the earliest Chinese dramas in the twelfth century.
		An actor in Chinese opera is trained especially for one role type and will generally stick to it throughout his or her career.
		The oldest form of the Chinese opera stage is a square platform of bamboo and planks, with the audience on three sides.
	www.aaronshep.com /extras/WhiteSnake_note2.html (1587 words)

	The Cultural Heritage of China :: Entertainment :: Chinese Opera :: Introduction
		Chinese opera is a popular form of drama in China.
		Chinese operas continue to exist in 368 different forms now, the best known of which is Beijing opera, which assumed its present form in the mid-19th century and was extremely popular in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
		During the Cultural Revolution, most opera troupes were disbanded, performers and scriptwriters were persecuted, and all operas except the eight "model operas" approved by Jiang Qing and her associates were banned.
	www.ibiblio.org /chineseculture/contents/entr/p-entr-c01s01.html (797 words)

	Chinese Opera: A Brief History
		Beijing Opera (jingju ¨Ê¼@) is one of China's most recent theatrical forms, although it draws from a tradition extending back at least as far as the twelfth century, when opera was performed in the huge public theaters of Hangzhou, then capital of the Southern Song dynasty (1179-1276).
		While high society enjoyed zaju in the capital in the north, a folk tradition of opera known as marvelous tales (chuanqi ¶Ç©_) flourished in the south, particularly in the refined provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu.
		Clapper opera was one of many local opera traditions, though not all influenced the national opera.
	www.hamilton.edu /academics/Asian/OpProg2.html (643 words)

	TiT Culture: Chinese Opera Experience
		Chinese opera of the Peking variety is a difficult abstract art which synthesizes music, drama, dancing, and acrobatics along with very elaborate costumes and a minimum of props, according to traditions and customs dating back as far as the twelfth century.
		It is the tan role which is characterized by the high-pitched "squeaky" voice cultivated to attract the attention of the audience and appeal to the auditory preference of traditional Chinese gentlemen.
		Training in supple body movements, therefore, is as important as vocal training in the education of actors and actresses for Chinese opera.
	www.sinica.edu.tw /tit/culture/0895_cu2.html (1427 words)

	Chinese opera
		Also included in their cultural baggage were traditional Chinese forms of entertainment which brought them solace as they endured the rigors of beginning life anew in a place that was far from home.
		Performances in Bangkok of Chinese opera became less frequent and for a time it appeared that they were in danger of disappearing altogether.
		Those who became Chinese opera singers had to work hard, and when they became too old to perform found themselves in the dilemma of having no skills that could be applied in other kinds of work.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/9145/opera.html (1861 words)

	Chinese Traditional opera - Kunqu
		As in Peking Opera, the color red represents loyalty and justice, fl conveys uprightness and straightforwardness, white signifies cunning and shrewdness, and yellow indicates a fierce, tough character.
		Almost all traditional Chinese drama has elements of dance, and in some plays dances have been added, but these are unlike Kunqu, where every physical movement from beginning to end is in the mode of dance, thus creating a complete scope of performance technique.
		One zhezixi (opera highlight), "Zhaojun Leaves the Pass," tells of Wang Zhaojun, a beauty at the Han Dynasty imperial court, on her way to marry the Xiongnu Khan, in order to cement relations with the rulers of ethnic minorities in the border regions.
	www.chinavoc.com /arts/perform/opera/kunqu.htm (2438 words)

	Washington Chu Shan Chinese Opera Institute - Chinese Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The roots of Chinese opera can be traced back 3,000 years, with elements of song and dance, religious ritual, court music, acrobatics, puppetry and shadow plays, balladry, and farce.
		The material limitations of Chinese opera during the Qing formed the basis of the Chinese opera aesthetic, which is still the case today.
		What makes up a Chinese opera role--whether that of the dan (young woman), xiaosheng (young man), laosheng (old man), or chou (clown)--is defined by the set of performance skills to be mastered by the performer of that role.
	www.washingtonchineseopera.org /opera/opera.html (445 words)

	The Illuminated Lantern: A Short History of Chinese Opera
		In the Chinese Opera, there are generally four main categories of roles: sheng (the male roles), dan (the female roles), jing (the painted face roles), and chou (clowns).
		Too often, a powerful patron of the opera is charmed by the leading lady of the troupe, whether she be played by a man or a woman, and goes to great lengths to possess her.
		Updating the spelling of the opera style to reflect the updated spelling of the city from which it was named, the Beijing Opera page has a brief overview.
	www.illuminatedlantern.com /cinema/archives/a_short_history_of_chinese_opera.php (3447 words)

	ArtandCulture Movement: Chinese Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		From the very beginning of their training, Chinese opera performers are type-cast to play one of four principle roles: sheng, tan, ching, or chou.
		In general, props in Chinese opera are kept to a minimum, reduced to spare suggestions: a few chairs, tables, and rugs, for example, are arranged and re-arranged to depict various interiors; an oar might suffice to represent a boat.
		Chinese opera synthesizes an entire spectrum of talents, from drama and to music to acrobatics and dance.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/movement?id=1602 (544 words)

	Chinese Culture - Chinese Opera
		The main features of Chinese Opera are a spectacle of song and dance which, together with the colorful costumes, make-up, acrobats, jesters, storytellers, acting, poetry and martial arts combine to present the Opera in a very attractive way.
		During the period of first emperor Kublai Khan in the Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1279 to 1368) the opera had evolutional changes and the period was classified as the Golden age of the Classical Opera.
		Chinese opera has little in common with Western opera, and the screeching falsetto of the singers, the loud clacking of the clappers and the noisy banging of drums and cymbals can sound strange to Western ears.
	www.west-meet-east.com /opera.htm (273 words)

	Chinese Opera
		Chinese Opera is not a true approximation of Western Opera.
		Opera in its present form seems to have had the patronage of the imperial courts since the Chou dynasty.
		Chinese opera training requires its participants to start at an early age, well before adolescence.
	www.angelfire.com /darkside/ladywhitesnake/opera.html (551 words)

	Best of Hong Kong - Chinese Opera
		Chinese opera is a cardinal institution in Chinese entertainment and culture.
		For example, in Beijing opera, a white patch on the nose suggests a comical character of low rank, while a fully white face shows an evil and treacherous character and a red face signifies a courageous but dim-witted man. Black faced actors are average people.
		Chinese opera performers wear heavy makeup, which is a cosmetic style derived from the use of painted masks in older operatic forms.
	www.marimari.com /content/hong_kong/best_of/chinese_opera/main.html (735 words)

	China Travel Festivals - Chinese Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Chinese opera is a traditional dramatic form which sizes literature, music, dance, fine arts, martial arts and acrobatics.
		During the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), a local opera troupe from Anhui Province came to Beijing and brought its 'Hui Tune' (which originated in Anhui Pronince and was called 'Pihuang' opera) to the capital.
		Yue Opera is a major genre of opera in the south of China, Prevalent in Guangdong and Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macao and overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia.
	www.asia-planet.net /china/chinese-opera.htm (2196 words)

	Chinese Opera, China Opera, Chinese Arts, China Art
		Chinese opera together with Greece tragic-comedy and Indian Sanskrit Opera are the three oldest dramatic art forms in the world.
		From that time on, performers of Chinese opera were referred to as 'disciples of the pear garden'.
		Beijing Opera, the best-known Chinese opera style, was formed from the mingling of these regional styles.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/arts/chinese-opera.htm (588 words)

	Peking Opera, Beijing Opera, Chinese Opera, Beijing Trip, Trip to China, Beijing Night Life
		Peking Opera is deemed as the national opera and national quintessence.
		It is generally accepted that Peking Opera gradually came into being after 1790 when the famous four Anhui opera troupes came to Beijing.
		Peking Opera underwent fast development during the reign of Emperor Qianlong and the notorious Empress Dowager Cixi under the imperial patron, and eventually became more accessible to the common people.
	www.beijingtrip.com /feature/opera.htm (709 words)

	Chinese Culture - Chinese Opera
		Chinese Opera joins with Sanskrit Opera and Greek tragi-comedy as among the world's oldest performance art.
		Long supported by China's imperial rulers, during the Qing dynasty Chinese Opera began to be enjoyed by coomon folk too, among which many of its roots lie.
		Today, Chinese Opera is a world away from modern life, but that is part of its appeal and although no longer with a mass market it continues to survive and is enjoyed by chinese and tourists alike.
	www.kinabaloo.com /chinese_culture_7.html (204 words)

	Chinese Theatre Works - Introduction to Chinese Opera
		Kun Opera of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) originated in the city of Kunshan in southern China.
		The traditional core of the Chinese theater is the performing art of the actor, which includes song, dance, acrobatics, martial arts, pantomime, and face painting.
		Chinese theater has played a unique role in the history of world theater, especially in the twentieth century when it profoundly influenced the western avant-garde theater of Bertolt Brecht and Vsevolod Meyerhold.
	www.chinesetheatreworks.org /projects/operainfo.html (1187 words)

	Welcome to the Curtual Division, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Houston
		In the past, Chinese Opera singers would rather wear a worn and torn costume than one that did not correctly represent the character he was portraying.
		Chinese Opera was originally performed against only a backdrop, with the other three sides open.
		Modern Chinese Opera, however, is now set in a box-type stage, and a director system, stage design, and professional lighting are gradually being introduced.
	www.houstoncul.org /eng_culexg/c007.htm (1492 words)

	Chinese Opera. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		However, two Chinese men are inspired by the two Americans' musical performances to rebel in their own separate ways and thus contribute to the events at Tiananmen Square.
		Chinese Opera successfully dramatizes how artists can, with intelligence and resolve, turn a little artistic freedom into meaningful measures against a minatory regime.
		Both these Chinese women are masters in the art of surviving and in effecting the survival of art and others through hostile times.
	www.asia2000.com.hk /asia2000/orchid/chineseopera.shtml (1470 words)

	Chinese Opera and face painting
		Chinese Operas were based on old tales of heroes and the supernatural.
		In the opera the prince, hearing his enemies singing songs of Chu on all sides of Gaixia realises the game is up bids a sad farewell to his concubine, Yu Ji.
		This opera is actually an act in the opera Yutang Chun and the prisoner is the prostitute Yutang Chun, wrongly accused of murder.
	www.chinesemusic.co.uk /english/opera.htm (909 words)

	Chinese Beijing Peking Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Full of Chinese cultural facts, the opera presents to the audience an encyclopedia of Chinese culture as well as unfolding stories, beautiful paintings, exquisite costumes, graceful gestures and acrobatic fighting.
		It is generally accepted that Beijing opera gradually came into being after 1790 when the famous four Anhui opera troupes came to Beijing.
		Beijing opera underwent fast development during the reign of Emperor Qianlong and the notorious Empress Dowager Cixi under the imperial patron, and eventually became more accessible to the common people.
	asiarecipe.com /chiopera.html (794 words)

	Destiny, the Culture of China - Opera
		The costumes worn in Chinese Opera performances are broadly based on the dress in China about four centuries ago during the Ming Dynasty.
		The moon lute, two-stringed violin, and drum players, who provide the musical accompaniment for the opera, had to cultivate a high degree of sensitivity to and coordination with the actors through years of working together to be able to flow with the performance.
		Opera groups are trying to attract more young intellectuals to Peking Opera performances.
	library.thinkquest.org /20443/opera.html (1113 words)

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		In the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), Chinese opera masks were used in low comedy, and artists started to dye their faces in portrayal of supernatural beings.
		Chinese opera masks exaggerate the personalities and qualities of the character combined with the performance power of the actors.
		In Chinese Opera masks, red, yellow, blue, white, fl, purple, green, gold and silver were used for facial makeups.
	smartaichi.com /WTCQDOperaMasks.html (5373 words)

	Chinese Opera Highlights Ancient Explorer
		The only opera participating in the Second National Joint Art Show by Ethnic Minority Groups was hailed as the milestone of China's drama and music circles.
		The opera named after the explorer, whose expedition began 1,631 years earlier than Italian Christopher Columbus, was written in 1992 and has so far won a number of major awards.
		The opera produced by the Shaanxi Song and Dance Theater has toured around China for nearly 20 performances and visited Singapore in 1996.
	www.china.org.cn /english/19242.htm (176 words)

	The Washington Chu Shan Chinese Opera Institute
		The Washington Chu Shan Chinese Opera Institute (WCSCOI) is a local non-profit arts organization that presents the finest professional performances of Chinese Opera and is dedicated to bringing this multidisciplinary cultural art form to the widest audience possible.
		He was the Director of the Experimental Chinese Opera Theatre of the Shanghai Traditional Opera College and the Director, Script Writer, and Artistic Manager of the Shanghai Beijing Opera Theatre.
		HUANG was a leading performer at the Shanghai Chinese Opera Institute, and played a starring role in the television series, “Emperor Qianlong Visits Jiangnan.” For her work with WCSCOI, in 1994 and 1996 she was awarded a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artists Award.
	www.geocities.com /chushan_opera/overview.htm (1298 words)

	Beijing Opera - Roles in Chinese Opera
		Sheng is the male role in Beijing Opera.
		Dan is a general term in Beijing Opera for all female roles.
		In the feudal society of old China, as men and women were forbidden to perform on the same stage, all the female roles were played by men.
	www.chinesemoods.com /beijingoperaroles.html (523 words)

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