Written in 1598 — around the same time Shakespeare completed Romeo and Juliet — Tang Xianzu's The Peony Pavilion tells the ...

Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her other leg high and grasps the ...

A Peking Opera actress applies makeup backstage before a show in Beijing, China, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. In a breakneck ...

Scenes from Farewell My Concubine, performed at Shanghai Oriental Art Center on March 14, starring Shi Yihong as Yuji. CHINA DAILY Throughout her illustrious career, 53-year-old Shanghai native Shi ...

Hot off celebrating Austin Opera’s 40th anniversary with a gala concert at the Long Center for the Performing Arts, the company made a landmark announcement — its first-ever commissioned world ...

Liu Ren-haur. In Taiwanese choreographer Lai Hung-chung’s Birdy, the dancers wear 4-foot-long pheasant feathers on their heads. The effect, according to a review in the Vancouver online magazine Stir, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. San Francisco — San Francisco Opera’s hit new opera, Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” which had its final ...

SCHENECTADY — Linghui Tu, director and creator of “Journey of Love and Hope,” may have a seat front and center for rehearsal. But when something excites her — which is frequent — she is quick to bound ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The New York Concert Opera will reprise its “A New York Concert Opera Christmas” Saturday evening, Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the historic Christ Church in New Brighton. Organizers ...

A self-described comedian-activist was one of three protesters whose demonstration against “fascism” in the “art world” interrupted the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan last week, The Post has learned.

When Opera in the Heights opens its 2025-2026 season on Friday, it does so with an ambitious slate of programming and a new leader at the helm. Earlier this summer, Kathryn Frady was named the ...