I’ve been enjoying videos by Prince 坤生王子, a singer who specializes in male roles from Beijing opera. Here she is singing both the male and female leads in Wujia Slope 武家坡, fireside.

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Your Monday morning yangqin:

Mr. Zhang of Guangxi performs “Striking the Tiger and Climbing the Mountain 打虎上山” from “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy 智取威虎山”

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Zhang Manling 張曼玲, Beijing operatic heroine in the Cheng （程) tradition, died today at the age of 87.

(Zhang as Princess Tiejing 鐵鏡公主from “Silang Visits His Mother 四郎探母”)

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