HONG KONG (Reuters) -In a Cantonese opera inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump, a Chinese actor donning a blond wig spars on a Hong Kong stage with a man playing a double of Ukrainian President ...
HONG KONG — Strung up in the Sunbeam Theatre in a gritty working-class part of this city are posters showing Cantonese opera singers, their red lips offset by chalk-white, made-up faces. In the faded ...
Following an excellent La Traviata October in 2022, Opera Hong Kong this month brought us another heroine dying of consumption in a stunning production of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème. The story, ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong artist Christie To is only 16, but her aspirations to stardom are rooted in a centuries-old artform fighting extinction: Cantonese opera. In frenetic, capitalist Hong ...
Magnificently sung and superbly acted by a world-class cast led by Venera Gimadieva, one of today’s most celebrated Violettas, and accompanied by the Hong Kong Philharmonic under leading opera ...