Arts

Kunqu Opera on the Screen

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Taiwan film director Yang Fan applied Kunqu Opera to the film Peony Pavilion, whose leading actress Rie Miyazawa won the best leading actress for this film at the Moscow Film Festival. With a gather-together of quite a few celebrated contemporary opera performers in China, the film can claim to be an artwork. No efforts were spared in its art design, with as many as 250 embroidered costumes and over two million Yuan's worth of curio clothing and cheongsam. Probing the relationship between human life and opera, the film The Night Runner explores Chinese people's passionate love from the perspective of opera.

Kunqu Opera

Kunqu Opera is a sort of stage art. Its name suggests that it originates in Kunshan of Jiangsu Province. Originally called Kunshan Accent or abbreviated as Kun Accent, it has been called Kunqu Opera since the Qing Dynasty. It is also called Kun Opera nowadays.

Status of Kunqu Opera in China's Operas

Status of Kunqu Opera in China's Operas

Kunqu Opera boasts a history of 600 years, which is over four hundred years earlier than the birth of Beijing Opera.
Representative Works of Kunqu Opera

Representative Works of Kunqu Opera

Fifteen Strings of Bronze Coin Cash is a representative detective story in the repertoire of Kunqu Opera, which narrates how an official with a high sense of responsibility comes upon a queer case...
Famous Kunqu Actor Yu Zhenfei

Famous Kunqu Actor Yu Zhenfei

Born in the late years of the Qing Dynasty, Yu Zhenfei was an outstanding artist of Kunqu Opera. Fairly accomplished in classic literature, he blended perfectly in his performance the quintessence...