HONG KONG — Strung up in the Sunbeam Theatre in a gritty working-class part of this city are posters showing Cantonese opera singers, their red lips offset by chalk-white, made-up faces. In the faded ...
Even after 20 years of learning Cantonese opera, 31-year-old Thompson Vong Seng-pan is still a newbie. Most other performers are middle-aged. But he understands why younger generations are not ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) -In a Cantonese opera inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump, a Chinese actor donning a blond wig spars on a Hong Kong stage with a man playing a double of Ukrainian President ...
Ina Chan Un-chan, the Macau-born businesswoman and philanthropist, is behind two initiatives in Hong Kong to help Cantonese opera thrive in the future. The third wife of the late “king of casinos”, ...
Hong Kong artist Christie To is only 16, but her aspirations to stardom are rooted in a centuries-old art form fighting extinction: Cantonese opera. In frenetic, capitalist Hong Kong, where Cantopop ...
A fledgling movement to revive the traditional Hong Kong art form has picked up speed with the recent opening of the Yau Ma Tei Theatre, a centre featuring young opera artists. A rundown cinema in ...
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Starting 30 January, the West Kowloon Bamboo Theatre series will showcase Cantonese opera, Chinese dance and music in an 800-seat temporary theatre made of recycled bamboo. Initiated last year as a ...
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