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The Cantonese Opera Academy of Hong Kong classes started in 1980. To intensify education in Cantonese opera, they started to run an evening part-time certificate course in Cantonese Opera training with assistance from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1998. In 1999, the Association and the Academy further conducted a two-year daytime ...
Due to its popularity, the WKCDA continues to organise the West Kowloon Bamboo Theatre annually after 2012. Starting from 2013, apart from Cantonese opera, the theatre also provides performances of modern music and Chinese dance. There was a New Year Fair being provided as well. [1]
Cantonese opera is the style of opera associated with the Cantonese language. Listed as an intangible cultural heritage of the world, [26] it originated in the late 13th century and is a stage art that combines acrobatics, singing, martial arts, and acting. Cantonese opera also uses a different set of musical instruments.
A Yue opera actress dancing with water sleeves A Kunqu actress with an extended water sleeve. Water sleeves (Chinese: 水袖; pinyin: shuǐxiù) are long, flowing silk sleeve extensions attached to the cuffs of costumes in Chinese opera, widely used by both male and female characters of higher social classes. [1]
Welcome to London's Royal Opera House, where Opera Dots, a workshop for toddlers, aims to build a future fan base, one hop at a time. Beneath an elegant iron-and-glass ceiling, a group of young ...
Chicago Grand Opera Company (1910–1915), Chicago's first resident opera company, produced four seasons of opera in Chicago's Auditorium Theater from the fall of 1910 through November 1915. Chicago Opera Association, produced seven seasons of grand opera in Chicago's Auditorium Theater from 1915 to 1921, bankrupted by the soprano Mary Garden
Tsing Yi Bamboo Theatre is a festival among civilians since the 1960s. All people from different classes would engage in it. The famously-known traditional Cantonese opera, which is the highlight of the festival, would be on show throughout the festival. In general, elderly are the main audience of the show.
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