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	Chinese Traditional opera - Kunqu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Later, Kunqu was introduced to Beijing, and became one of the two official forms of drama within the imperial court, and was soon a nationwide favorite.
		Kunqu was dubbed the "teacher of various drama forms," as Kunqu performers worked dedicatedly to pass on their art throughout China.
		A Kunqu program not only details the arrangements of acts, verses, and the names of tunes to which verses are set, but also defines the roles, stage settings, costumes, props, and performers' movements, even going so far as to explain the significance of the position performers take on stage.
	www.chinavoc.com /arts/perform/opera/kunqu.htm (2438 words)

	Kunqu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		it is to have a chou in the Kunqu Opera repertory.
		Kunqu Opera is worthy of the title of the...
		Kunqu(昆曲, pinyin: Kūnqǔ), also known as Kunju or Kunqu Opera, is a kind of Chinese opera.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Kunqu (280 words)

	What Is Special In Kunqu Theater
		Kunqu is an almost 500-year-old theater that uniquely blends poetic eloquence, musical refinement and dramatics.
		In Kunqu, Poetry is written to fit a large number of fixed tone patterns.
		The performer of the Kunqu theater, a singer, dancer and actor - all three in one, is the pivotal element on stage.
	www.geocities.com /kunqu_skai/especial.html (631 words)

	Chinese Opera: A Brief History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kunqu rose to the status of national opera in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, even in Beijing, then ruled by foreign rulers from Manchuria.
		Kunqu playwrights focused on prosody and novelty of expression, producing increasingly ornate operas.
		It was precisely this ornate and allusive language that brought on Kunqu's demise.
	academics.hamilton.edu /asian_studies/home/OpProg2.html (643 words)

	Maestro of Kunqu: Yu Zhenfei
		Kunqu first appeared in the late Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), some 600 years ago, in the lower Yangtze Valley.
		Yu Zhenfei, born in Songjiang (present-day Shanghai), was the best-known maestro of Kunqu in the first half of the 20th century.
		Yu began to learn Kunqu at the age of six from his father who was then a Kunqu actor.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_artqa/2003-09/24/content_27429.htm (232 words)

	Reviving Chinese Kunqu Opera Promising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Kunqu Opera Festival debuted on Oct. 27 in east China's Jiangsu Province.
		It assembled nearly 100 young artists from China's six national Kunqu troupes, among whom 42 were competing for the national awards, the official told Xinhua in Suzhou on Thursday.
		Kunqu with its 700 years of history, is at risk of declining due to its obscure language and precise structure.
	www.china.com.cn /english/travel/47401.htm (350 words)

	ASIA IN HELSINKI - What is Kun Opera?
		Kunqu dates back to the Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) southern China, where nanxi theatre, born as early as in the 1100s, was then the prevailing genre.
		Kunqu has much in common with other Chinese opera forms: the typification of characters, the wearing of Ming costumes, the scanty set decorations and the very exacting acting technique.
		Kunqu is indeed demanding to its performers, for the sentimental, frequently by a specific drill technique figured songs are mostly performed while dancing.
	kulttuuri.hel.fi /aasia/engl/1997/kun3.html (516 words)

	pan chin-lien: lights, action, drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		However, in the New York Kunqu Society's version of Pan Chin-lien, she asserts herself as a full-blooded person with human passions and desires, refusing to summit to her ill-fated fortune.
		The New York Kunqu Troupe is a professional theater company affiliated with the Kunqu Society of New York City, which was founded in 1988 by a group of Kunqu artists, scholars, musicians, and students.
		Kunqu is more than just a form of Chinese musical drama: It's a combination of play, opera, ballet, poetry, and music.
	www.taipei.org /teco/cicc/currents/11-1299/index/pcl.html (519 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kunqu is an old form of Chinese opera which has a 500 year long history, 300 years older than Beijing Opera, and is still enjoyed by people today.
		He studied the inner artistic value and cultivated an interest in Kunqu in his sons and daughters.
		Each of these pictures has the words of the opera inscribed on it be a famous contemporary Kunqu artist or calligrapher.
	www.yarratech.com /snaps/fanshaoyun.nsf/introductionenglish (531 words)

	Jiangsu Kunqu Opera House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Because of the inherited high quality of Kunqu Opera and the inner artistic strength and impression of the troupe, Jiangsu Kunqu Opera House is always awarded as the "Domestic eminent artistic performance group" and "National level troupe" in the Chinese theatrical circles.
		Kunqu opera is a traditional type of Chinese drama with a history of more than six hundred years.
		Kunqu opera is deemed "the mother of all Chinese traditional operas" and makes great importance in the history of drama, literature and music.
	www.jsperformingarts.com.cn /doce/kunju_a.html (498 words)

	About China
		Kunqu opera, in its development, had different kinds of names, such as, kuqiang, kun tune, kunqu etc. Generally speaking, kunqiang is used to express tunes of the opera, and kunqu is used to express oratorio.
		Kunqu opera had flourished and been the king in opera field for more than 230 years.
		Kunqu opera is a comprehensive art which combines singing, dancing, narrating and acting together.
	en.chinabroadcast.cn /1702/2005-5-3/14@232843.htm (320 words)

	Resident Artists
		He is and award-winning Kunqu artist and is one of the most talented “clown” role performers of his generation.
		Shi is director of the Kunqu Society and the New York Kunqu Troupe.
		Wu is a resident artist of Kunqu Society and the Director of Kunqu Workshops.
	www.kunqusociety.org /artists.htm (926 words)

	[No title]
		"I was born in the birthplace of Kunqu Kunshan, Jiangsu, on September 20, 1965.
		"Kunqu is a complete assembly of fine arts, and a performer has to be a poet, a singer, actor, martial arts expert, and a communicator," added the artist, who has won several awards.
		Filled with brilliant cultural characteristics, Kunqu reflects the creativity of oriental artists and the diversity of the culture.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2003121800830300.htm&date=2003/12/18/&prd=mp& (732 words)

	Kunqu
		Kunqu (崑曲;, pinyin: Kūnqǔ; Wade-Giles: k'un-ch'ü), also known as Kunju, Kun opera or Kunqu Opera, is the oldest extant form of Chinese opera.
		Kunqu boasts a 600-year history and is known as the "teacher" or "mother" of a hundred operas, because of its influence on other Chinese opera forms, including Peking opera.
		Today, Kunqu is performed professionally in six Mainland Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing, Changsha, and Hangzhou, as well as in Taipei.
	en.efactory.pl /Kunqu (201 words)

	The Exquisite Art of Kunqu Opera: Lecture and Demonstration - Events - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kunqu is one of the earliest forms of traditional Chinese drama, with a history of more than 600 years.
		From the late Ming Dynasty onwards, Kunqu was most often performed for the privileged classes and members of the imperial court, and gradually become removed from the reality of the broad masses.
		She is the fourth generation descendant of a performing arts family from Beijing that excels in Kunqu Opera.
	ieas.berkeley.edu /events/2005.10.12.html (1375 words)

	Queens Chronicle - Western Edition
		Kunqu has also been awarded recognition as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
		Kunqu theater was suppressed in China during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976.
		The Kunqu Society continues the preservation of this art form with workshops in flute, movement and singing.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1865&dept_id=152944&newsid=14434131&PAG=461&rfi=9 (603 words)

	Kunqu Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kunqu was shown to the royal or wealthy families only.
		Kunqu is famous for its music and its poetical style of wording rather than other styles.
		It was common for a joint performance in Beijing Opera or Kunqu Opera which involved actors and actresses from both sides.
	www.chinapage.com /xwang/kunqu.html (219 words)

	2002 ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Central to Kunqu's conventions is the acknowledgement between performer and audience that they are indeed in the theatre, an admission often avoided in realistic Western theatre.
		Kunqu, which is often thought to be the predecessor to modern Beijing Opera, provided us with hints of what China was like.
		Studying Kunqu theater in China this summer was a priceless experience for me. I learned to appreciate the value of learning about one part of a culture for developing an appreciation of the whole.
	www.asianetwork.org /freeman/2002freeman/Whitman (978 words)

	humanrights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Known also as the "watermill song" because of its soft arias and the graceful movement of its performers, the opera has been considered an elite opera since it was created in 16th century.
		In its golden age, Kunqu was sung and loved by almost everyone in southern China.
		However, Kunqu, the mother of all Chinese Operas, lost popularity in the early 19th century, because of years of war and its technical difficulties.
	211.167.236.236 /news/2001-11-30/Local2001113091321.htm (188 words)

	QIANLONG.COM--Beijing Portal--Kunqu Opera - "A Peony in Our Backyard" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kunqu Opera, with more than 400 years of history, is known as "the mother of Chinese operas." Peony Pavilion, one of the four classic dramas of Tang Xianzu, a great dramatist of the Ming Dynasty, is a classic of Kunqu Opera.
		Kunqu Opera began its history during the Ming Dynasty, in Kunshan, a place near Suzhou in east Jiangsu Province.
		He says that he was first moved by Kunqu Opera when he was a teenager, and throughout his life he has made every effort to promote Kunqu among Chinese people, and especially among Chinese youth.
	english.qianlong.com /7838/2004/11/01/1380@2349427.htm (1531 words)

	Chinese Opera Stars Find Haven, and Hardship, in U.S.
		Kunqu, like the other genres, is a musical drama, but it is also a stage performance that combines ballet, poetry recital, opera and music; classical poetry and literature, sung and recited, form the basis of the drama itself.
		At the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, kunqu was gradually displaced by the less sophisticated Beijing opera, which embraced showy acrobatic and martial scenes that proved more popular to less literate audiences.
		Shi were among the stars of Shanghai's kunqu opera troupe, with Cai playing the physically arduous role of the "chou," or clown, in each opera.
	www.ishipress.com /opera-ch.htm (1792 words)

	Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible heritage of Humanity
		A Kunqu play usually consists of more than 24 scenes - accompanied by arias - with a complex plot and subplots involving human or supernatural elements.
		Legacies of the Kunqu theatre are librettos from the Ming and Qing periods (1644-1911).
		e six existing Kunqu opera houses and the training of new performers, the revival of rarely performed operas, and the organization of festivals.
	www.unesco.org /opi/intangible_heritage/china.htm (233 words)

	english.eastday.com
		Chinese classic Kunqu Opera "Butterfly Lovers", also known as the Chinese "Romeo and Juliet", for the first time costarring both mainland and Taiwan Kunqu artists, is scheduled to be staged tomorrow at the Asia Arts Festival opening today in Foshan, south China's Guangdong province.
		"Kunqu 'Butterfly Lovers' is a perfect combination of delicate literature and fine arts," said Zeng, adding that artists from both Taiwan Kunqu Opera Troupe and east China's Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe present the love story in vivid Kunqu form together in a bid to enrich Kunqu storage and highlight cross-Strait cultural dialogue.
		Kunqu, China's oldest and one of its most influential theatrical traditions, is an almost 500-year-old theater form which originated in Kushan, east China's Jiangsu province and uniquely blends poetic eloquence, musical refinement and drama.
	english.eastday.com /eastday/englishedition/features/userobject1ai1635291.html (346 words)

	JTC The Monkey King Wreaks Havoc in Heaven: klens
		The audience, small as it was, had a wildly good time, with the enthusiasm of a great number of inner children taking vicarious part in the ultimate cosmic food fight.
		Kunqu is an older form, dating back some 400 years or more.
		For those who specifically enjoy kunqu, or someone who wants a proper introduction to the genre, this is not the performance to see.
	ejmas.com /jtc/jtcart_klens_1003.htm (1686 words)

	Humanrights
		The version by the Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theatre was recreated and rearranged by noted Kunqu expert Gu Duhuang.
		Elegant, slow moving and often abstruse, Kunqu was the theatre art favored by high and low alike during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
		Gu notes that the value of Kunqu is not counted in the box office: it is the cultural and artistic heritage that is precious.
	www.humanrights-china.org /news/2004-12-2/China200412295530.htm (466 words)

	Bates College \| 01-11-00 CHINESE OPERA COMPANY TO PERFORM
		Kunqu is a form of Chinese musical drama, including a combination of play, opera, ballet, poetry recital and music.
		It also draws on earlier forms of Chinese theatrical performance such as mime, farce, acrobatics, ballads and medley, some of which precede the third century B.C. It is first and foremost a performing art with a plot usually familiar to the audience or else made available through a prose summary.
		Founded in 1997, the New York Kunqu Troupe is a professional Kunqu theater company affiliated with the Kunqu Society, a nonprofit group whose objectives include the preservation, study and advancement of the art of Kunqu.
	www.bates.edu /x1032.xml (429 words)

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