HONG KONG – 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 Volodymyr ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong artist Christie To is only 16, but her aspirations to stardom are rooted in a centuries-old artform fighting extinction: Cantonese opera. In frenetic, capitalist Hong ...
The first Cantonese Opera Day, presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, was launched here Sunday afternoon at the Hong Kong ...
HONG KONG — Three stories of billboards alongside the Sunbeam Theater in Hong Kong were filled with images of performers in heavily painted faces and ornate headdresses. But one, with an overly long ...
Xiqu Centre opens in West Kowloon Cultural District with an array of colorful commissioned performances meant to renew and broaden appreciation of Cantonese Opera. Rebecca Lo reports. In 1930s Hong ...
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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 ...