This essay attempts to provide useful basic information about Beijing opera as well as selected helpful details sometimes absent from elementary guides to the art. Each of these parameters is the fruit of a system several centuries old, presented as living art through the work of highly trained performers. The art might be best thought of as a confluence of stylized patterns of dress, makeup, action, staging, text, and music (instrumental and vocal). A quintessentially Chinese art form, its elaborate costumes and makeup, gestural and acrobatic stage movements, highly symbolic and stylized content, and unique musical style amaze and intrigue audiences. ©1993 Miramax Films.īeijing opera is a colorful, spectacular performance art that dazzles, fascinates, and often puzzles foreigners.
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