Widely considered the finest of China's varied opera traditions, Beijing Opera (jingxi) combines music, song, speech, mime, dance and acrobatics, exciting spectacle, and subtle beauty. Divided into two basic styles, civil plays mainly concerned...

Beijing opera or Peking opera (simplified Chinese: 京剧; traditional Chinese: 京劇; pinyin: Jīngjù) is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and...

Nearly 70 children in Winchester's after-school program listen with rapt attention to the story of "The Monkey King." The ancient Chinese tale is compelling, but a large part of what is keeping this normally squirmy audience transfixed is that as Beijing Opera star Ghaffar...

In Western art, opera is considered the most sophisticated of the performing art forms for its embrace not only of singing but of instrumental music, sets, costumes, drama (sometimes comedy), and dance. In China, however, opera goes one better. Picture a soprano capping off...