Kunqu (Chinese: 崑曲), also known as Kunju (崑劇), K'un-ch'ü, Kun opera or Kunqu Opera, is one of the oldest extant forms of Chinese opera. It evolved from...

preferred. The first Kunqu opera, Washing Silken Gauze (浣紗記, Huan Sha Ji) was created by Liang Chenyu who used Kunshan tunes. Kunqu was regarded as an elegant...

its headquarters in Kunshan. Kunshan is the origin of Kunqu, also known as Kunqu opera. Kunqu is one of the oldest extant forms of Chinese opera. It...

playwright award at the third Peking Opera Art Festival. Six members of the Kunqu troupe have won the Plum Blossom Award: Zhang Jiqing, Shi Xiaomei, Hu Jinfang...

theatre" of China, but other genres like Yue opera, Cantonese opera, Yu opera, kunqu, qinqiang, Huangmei opera, pingju, and Sichuan opera are also performed...

set in the Southern Song. The play was originally written for staging as Kunqu opera, one of the genres of traditional Chinese theatre arts. It was first...

English, are the stage clothes and attire worn in Chinese opera, such as Kunqu, Cantonese opera, Beijing opera, Huangmei opera. Some of these costumes...

prominent forms of Chinese opera. In August 2008, the kunqu performance group from the "Jiangsu Kunqu House" performed their program Floating Dreams at Prince...

opera (Kunqu) performer Mei Lanfang. Her mother, Li Guifen, was also a Kunqu singer. Lu followed her parents footsteps and began performing in Kunqu as a...

staging, performance elements, and aesthetic principles were retained from Kunqu, the form that preceded it as court art. Thus, Peking opera is not a monolithic...

The Suzhou Museum of Opera and Theatre or China Kunqu Museum is a theatre museum in Suzhou, China. It is located in a Ming dynasty theatre of latticed...

transition blurred the boundaries. Jiangsu is rich in cultural traditions. Kunqu, originating in Kunshan, is one of the most renowned and prestigious forms...

Mei Lanfang was born in Beijing in 1894 into a family of Peking opera and Kunqu performers (performers of a traditional Chinese theatre composed of drama...

for solo suona or dizi performances. It is one of the main instruments in kunqu and some other forms of Chinese opera. Traditional small ensembles also...

fusing hip-hop and R&B, with traditional Chinese music (Beijing opera, Kunqu, Chinese orchestra, and tribal music from Tibet, Yunnan, and Mongolia)....

dejected and frustrated, and drags his feet in half-on shoes when he walks. In kunqu, he sings and talks with a "sad sound" and does not dance. The shamaosheng...

traditional Chinese: 張軍; pinyin: Zhāng Jūn; born October 1974) is a Chinese Kunqu opera performer. In May 2011, Zhang was awarded the UNESCO Artist for Peace...

Calligraphers Memorial. Jiangsu Province Kun Opera is one of the best theaters for Kunqu, China's oldest stage art. It is considered a conservative and traditional...

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Lü Bu portrayed by a Kunqu actor in 2015....

The Shanghai Magnolia Stage Performance Awards (Chinese: 上海白玉兰戏剧表演艺术奖), commonly known as the Magnolia Stage Awards, are presented by Shanghai Media Group...

although the traditional dizi continue to be used for purposes such as kunqu accompaniment. In the 1930s, an 11-hole, fully chromatic version of the...

2007. The 2010 TV series faced controversy over its cast, the stylized, kunqu-inspired hairdo, as well as a generally negative press after its July 6...

Representative works from this section include the operas (especially kunqu operas) by Qian Decang (錢德蒼) in the collection 綴白裘, and the legends written...

Pan Jinlian in Kunqu...

performances of the play were based on behalf of the Zhejiang Kunqu Theatre Company and the Jiangsu Kunqu Opera Troupe. Sukun Troupe of Jiangsu Province also had...

prominent troupes in Shanghai include Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company, Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe [zh], Shanghai Yue Opera House, and Shanghai Huju Opera House...

Kunqu students from the Shanghai Theatre Academy perform in 2015...

the Ming and was retained greatly under the Qing with new version called Kunqu. Some of the empire's most renowned operas were Tale of the Pipa and The...

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