We plan to go to the
opera this Sunday.
我们计划这个星期天去看歌剧演出。
Opera houses were packed out whenever Tom was singing.
汤姆一演唱剧院就满座。
Eric always goes to the
opera.
埃里克总是去看歌剧。
She visited places of interests including Nanputuo Temple, Xiamen and enjoyed Chinese culture such as Sichuan Opera's Face Changing Show, as well as visited a Tesla store in Chengdu.
她参观了厦门南普陀寺等名胜古迹，欣赏了川剧变脸表演等中国文化，还参观了成都的特斯拉商店。
It has cooperated with Chinese culture icons including Chen Xiaoqing, director of the hit food documentary A Bite of China, Kunqu Opera performer Zhang Jun and folk singer Gong Linna, and has held activities and food experiences to honor traditional Chinese festivals and occasions.
它与中国文化偶像合作，包括热门美食纪录片《咬一口中国》的导演陈晓庆、昆曲演员张军和民谣歌手龚琳娜，并举办了庆祝中国传统节日和场合的活动和美食体验。
She added that they also brought Chinese ink brush artist Chen Jiu in to refresh the brand's visual identity as inspired by classical Chinese opera to offer guests a more distinctive cultural experience.
她补充说，他们还请来了中国水墨艺术家陈酒，以中国古典戏曲为灵感，刷新品牌的视觉形象，为客人提供更独特的文化体验。
The company produced a short video calledxa0Pass the ball, transfer the culture,xa0which has mixed traditional Chinese cultural elements such as the Zhangzhou glove puppet show, the Guangdong lion dance and southern Fujian's Gaojia Opera.
该公司制作了一个名为“传球，传递文化”的短视频，该视频融合了漳州布袋戏、广东舞狮和闽南高家戏等中国传统文化元素。
The Ronald McDonald House in Beijing, designed in traditional Chinese-style, is decorated with auspicious decorations such as lanterns, opera mask hangings, and pictures of the four seasons to create a comfortable and peaceful living environment for patients and their family members.
"A passionate fan of classic literature and Chinese history and culture, as well as Western opera and musicals, Huang has channeled her understanding and passions to preserving cultural and historical elements throughout property designs and buildings.
As crossover branding is now a hot trend for many sectors across the world, Devialet, the French acoustic engineering technology specialist known for audio products including high-end speakers, unveiled its latest product – Phantom Reactor Opéra de Paris in China to further enhance its market presence.
The company released this product in partnership with Opera National de Paris, also known as the Opera Garnier, to integrate innovative designs and French cultural elements to raise its popularity among consumers.
Opera National de Paris was built from 1861 to 1875 and is renowned for its opulence and its architect Charles Garnier.
After Devialet sells a Reactor Opéra, a part of the revenue will be used to support the artistic endeavors of Opera National de Paris.
Travelers are encouraged to write or recollect and sing folk songs, and attend traditional Chinese dramas such as Beijing opera, Shaanxi opera and Sichuan opera.
They can also go to the historical Qianmen Street in Beijing to watch a Beijing opera show in virtual reality, try on related costumes and interact with some famous opera artistes.
Her love for Chinese ancient poems, Western operas, and objects of history - in her spare time, she flies off to London to watch an opera or visit local museums - helps Huang to understand the nuances of ancient architecture and how to allow the lessons they contain to inform modern constructions.
Souvenirs available include a range of traditional cultural gifts, from typical Chinese food to dolls portraying characters from Peking Opera.
Last year, Poly Theatre Co produced the English version of the opera Dream of the Red Chamber with Armstrong Music & Arts and the San Francisco Opera Co, and organized a tour in Beijing, Wuhan in Hubei province and Changsha in Hunan province.
To build her brand, Hu has incorporated over 150 poems with musical elements such as Peking Opera, Huangmei Opera and Spanish Flamenco.
For Wang Peiyu, a Peking Opera actress, commercialization is an approach to bring the classic art form to the mass market.
Due to this, traditional arts such as Peking Opera have a chance to be noticed," said Wang.
"To modernize Peking Opera, we must find ways to present it to the younger generations," she said.
"We are still learning and experimenting to find the best way to build the aesthetic of Peking Opera through pay-for-knowledge platforms. "
Xu Niansha, chairman of China Poly Group CorpThe company has also been pushing forward cooperation in performance and theater management, art business, as well as auctions and cinema investment with the US exporting Chinese cultural products to Western markets, while introducing Western classics to the Chinese market, including the introduction of the Dream of the Red Chamber from San Francisco Opera, film and TV arts cooperation with FilmNation Entertainment and collaboration with Art Institute of Chicago.
Customers have included the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Military School of Music, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Berlin Opera and the US and Norwegian armed forces.
However, size is no obstacle for owner Master Ye, who can tailor a variety of garments from opera costumes to vendors' work uniforms.
While having fun, I also gained knowledge," said a visitor surnamed Xu, who also enjoyed opera performances and ethnic costume displays during the celebrations.
The World Expo Central Activity Area currently has 13 first-class cultural and sports facilities, including the Shanghai Grand Opera House and the Shanghai Jiushi International Equestrian Center.
More policies push to meet appetites for evening consumptionBe it watching the Peking Opera Farewell My Concubine at Dashila in the nation's capital, having traditional Beijing snacks across the street, or camping on Shanghai's bustling Nanjing Road, the nighttime economy is taking off in cities across the nation.
"This year, Opera Gallery participated in ART021 for the second time, and presented creations of some iconic artists such as Marc Chagall, Fernando Botero and Chu Teh-Chun.
TIANJIN — Walking along an old flagstone street and holding a special sightseeing map, a kind of "passport" in Chinese ancient times, tourists can stroll through the quaint opera stage and down long corridors, enjoying the traditional culture in an immersive way in Yangliuqing township, North China's Tianjin municipality.
"At Beihai Park, visitors can watch performances of traditional art such as Kunqu Opera and face-changing while enjoying imperial delicacies during a relaxing night experience.
The city has shaped new types of consumption formats that integrate the consumption of coffee with bookstores, gardening and Chinese opera, the report found.
The name Chagee originates from the ancient Chinese drama Bawang Bieji, also known as Farewell My Concubine, and brand's logo features the figure of a huadan (a young woman in Peking Opera).
In its overseas stores, Chagee showcases traditional Chinese culture by including elements of Chinese opera in the decor and also in the packaging of its drinks.
Citing the Cantonese opera Fighting for the Great Tang Empire, which is based on Xishanju's popular electronic game Jianwang III, Guo said the company would focus on developing self-innovated games highly integrated with Chinese culture.
According to official data, over 470 million visitors participated in around 110,000 public cultural events, including lantern shows and traditional folk opera performances nationwide.
Historical architectural complex Sanfang Qixiang, which literally means "three lanes and seven alleys", in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian province, entertained tourists with intangible cultural heritage-themed talent shows and Yueju Opera performances, among others.
A series of new cultural facilities, such as the east wings of the Shanghai Library and the Shanghai Museum, the Grand Shanghai Opera House and the children's library in Pudong, will also be completed, according to Fang Shizhong, head of the municipal administration of culture and tourism.
In tourism services, for example, visitors can discover Peking Opera culture through an immersive experience, drive a Fuxing bullet train, the fastest train in the country, on a simulator, and take a VR trip to some well-known Red tourism spots, according to Liu Bin, deputy director of the Beijing Culture and Tourism Bureau.
In addition, some special apps for the elderly involving health maintenance, traditional Chinese opera and social networking have also emerged.
The grants were used to fund opera performances, purchase facilities for cultural centers in rural areas, and support tourist projects in impoverished regions, said Li Qun, vice-minister of culture and tourism, at a news conference.
Su Zhong, chairman of Daye Transmedia Group, a Beijing-based firm specializing in film, TV opera and animation, said investors often show more interest in tangible assets and the lack of funds has hindered the development of culture.
"But now the customers may want to watch a movie or enjoy an opera.
Performers in traditional local opera costumes attend a new energy vehicle show in Jinhua, Zhejiang province.
In June 2017, PICC P&C and Film Finances Inc, a US company, launched the first so-called completion guarantee－insurance that guarantees a film or TV opera can be completed within limited time and budget.
They were also briefed on traditional Chinese opera and the art of guqin, an ancient seven-stringed zither native to China, and enjoyed performance of guqin playing, Kunqu Opera and Peking Opera.
The two gradually developed a closer relationship through activities such as dinners, outings, and attending opera performances.
The two gradually developed a closer relationship through activities such as dinners, outings and attending opera performances.
Performances in Kunshan present opportunity for beneficiaries of training to shineThe Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the annual talent development plan for performers of traditional Chinese opera on July 4.
According to the announcement, 20 traditional Chinese opera actors and actresses from around the country are on the list, and will give performances showcasing the results of the talent development plan in October in Kunshan, Jiangsu province.
This year's plan was launched in February and aims to train top performers of traditional Chinese opera.
Traditional Chinese opera comes in many forms and combines a variety of art forms, including singing, dancing, martial arts and acting, and is usually hundreds of years old.
The plan covers different types of traditional Chinese opera, including Huangmeixi Opera, which is also known as caichaxi (tea-picking opera) and originated in Anqing in Anhui province during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), and Qinqiang Opera, which is popular in northwestern China and particularly in Shaanxi province and has its roots in the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC).
There are 348 kinds of traditional Chinese opera, according to a report released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2017.
"Compared to the figure contained in the book, Traditional Chinese Operas Chronicles, which was published in 1999 and which recounts the history and development of traditional Chinese opera, 47 varieties have died out and 17 are facing extinction," the report said.
The talent development plan was born from awareness of the need to protect and revive traditional Chinese opera.
Guo Xiao, an actress at the China National Peking Opera Company, is one of the names on this year's list of top performers.
She has been performing with the company since 2010, and has played leading roles in classic productions, including as Mu Guiying in Female Generals of the Yang Family, and has also performed in the experimental Peking Opera production of Faust, an adaptation of the Western classic by Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
"The talent development plan allowed me to learn under established Peking Opera masters and gave me more opportunities to perform onstage," said Guo, whose mother is a Peking Opera actress with the local Peking Opera troupe in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, and father is a member of the troupe's band.
"When I was young, I learned piano, dance and calligraphy but I was interested in Peking Opera," she said.
Peking Opera, which is also known as jingju, is a 200-year-old art form that combines singing, dancing, acrobatics and martial arts and dates back to 1790, when four Hui Opera troupes visited Beijing as part of celebrations for the 80th birthday of Emperor Qianlong (1711-99).
Hui Opera, or huiju, is a precursor of Peking Opera from Anhui province.
In about 1840, Peking Opera began to take formal shape, growing rapidly under the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), a patron of the art.
Afterward, Peking Opera went from strength to strength, with troupes formed in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai.
"My parents didn't plan to teach me about Peking Opera because they know that it is difficult to learn and demand for performers wasn't very high.
But I learned Peking Opera when my mother gave classes to other actresses in the troupe," said Guo, whose talent got her into Beijing's Middle School Affiliated to the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts to study when she was 10.
Though her parents were against the idea of Guo becoming a Peking Opera actress, they supported her dream.
She specializes in qing yi, a female role that is mature and graceful, and graduated with a master's degree in Peking Opera performance from the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts in 2010.
"Like many young Peking Opera performers, I wanted to perform onstage as much as possible because that is how we grow and develop into real artists," Guo said.
One of her first breakthroughs was performing the classic Peking Opera piece, Baolian Deng (The Lotus Lamp), which is based on a Chinese folk tale about a young boy, Chen Xiang, who saves his mother.
"I was very lucky to have Peking Opera masters like Li Weikang and Geng Qichang guiding me.
According to Wang Yong, president of the China National Peking Opera Company, over half the company's 183 actors and actresses are under the age of 40.
Peking Opera actor Huang Qifeng, who specializes in performing wusheng roles, or the male martial arts role, is also on the list, and will perform classic Peking Opera productions in Kunshan this October, including Lin Chong Ye Ben, or Lin Chong Flees by Night, one of the best-known Peking Opera pieces for wusheng actors.
"The government is devoted to supporting traditional Chinese opera.
The talent development plan for traditional Chinese opera offers young performers the opportunity to display their talent and move up to a new artistic level," said Huang, who works currently with the Tianjin Jingju Theatre Company.
He said that the key to training young actors and actresses in traditional Chinese opera is to have established artists teach them.
"I learned many classic Peking Opera pieces word by word, move by move, from established artists.
"Traditional Chinese opera is the quintessence of Chinese culture, condensing the wisdom and efforts of artists from many generations.