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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 ...
The Detroit Opera Archive and Resource Library is the official library and archive for Detroit Opera. It specializes in research materials specific to dance, opera and the company's extensive history. The library was made created in 2007 with a gift from Robert and Maggie Allesee. [25]
The Hong Fook Tong Chinese Dramatic Company (Cantonese: 鴻福堂劇團 [1], romanized: Hung⁴ Fuk¹ Tong⁴ Kek⁶ Tyun⁴) [2] [3] [note 1] was an all-male [4] San Francisco, California-based Cantonese opera company which became the first major Asian American theatrical company in the country, inaugurating the first phase of the history of Chinese opera [note 2] in the United States. [5]
A dance concert set to music by U2? Believe it. Ballet and Bono will come together on the Detroit Opera House stage when Complexions Contemporary Ballet returns to the city Dec. 7 and 8.
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.
Detroit Opera’s staging takes the characters from their original 1853 setting to the early 20th century to take a progressive look at gender relations and society’s changing views about women.
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]
Detroit Opera continues to push and shove at the boundaries of what the art form can achieve with John Cage’s “Europeras 3 & 4.”