BEIJING — When “The Legend of the White Snake” opens Wednesday at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, an American audience will get its first glimpse of Zhang Huoding, one of China’s biggest ...

Yuan Shihai, 86, a former star of classical Peking opera, died of undisclosed causes Dec. 11 in Beijing. Born in 1916, Yuan began studying the distinctive, high-pitched Peking opera singing style when ...

Long Yu has come a long way since the day in 1976 when he accidentally killed a duck. The duck was going to die anyway, but not until it had been properly fattened up in the breeding factory where ...

Yuan Shihai, a star of classical Peking opera whose career spanned seven decades, has died. He was 86. Yuan died Dec. 11 of illness, the official Xinhua News Agency and newspapers said, without giving ...

The Xiqu Opera Black Box Festival held in Beijing, a vibrant celebration of traditional Chinese opera presented with contemporary twists, features 21 productions, including Fated at Wulong Temple and ...

Yuan Shihai, a star of classical Peking opera whose career spanned seven decades, died in December in Beijing. He was 86. Yuan died of an illness, the official Xinhua News Agency and newspapers said, ...