chinese opera music Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/chinese-opera-music Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:53:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Opera of China http://travelsfinders.com/opera-of-china.html http://travelsfinders.com/opera-of-china.html#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2017 05:05:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=230334 Traditional opera Clanging cymbals, flutes and drums, acrobatic postures of the actors, high falsetto voices, abrupt geometrical movements ofthe warriors, dignified symbolic gestures, colourful mask-like make-up, shimmering, beautifully embroidered silk costumes – Chinese opera is the pinnacle of many varied disciplines which all unfold together on the stage. Chinese theatre really has very little in common with Western theatre and seems – like the novel with which it originally identified – to have originated with the singing Buddhist monk who used a wide range of expressive forms to retell the story of Buddha. Theatre as an art form did not

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