Did anybody else hear Ballad of the Canal on their public radio station today?

#BalladOfTheCanal #Opera #ChineseOpera

A highlights reel of Elon Musk’s week, secretly filmed at Twitter HQ.

(Playing the role of EM is Hebei Clapper Opera artist Ma Zhao 馬曌， drawing on passages from Struck by a Gold Brick 打金磚)

#ChineseOpera #HebeiOpera #河北梆子

#Teochew #Chinese #Momism - my Mom, randomly, a few minutes ago, as we're getting ready to head out for errands:

"You know, Teochew opera performers were the original Chinese #DragQueens . They're amazing & beautiful performers."

#TeochewOpera #ChineseOpera

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.

#ChineseOpera #BeijingOpera #京劇 #京剧

January’s diet: Imaginary Noodles

(Song Meijuan 宋美娟 as Jiao Shi secretly wolfs down a bowl.
From the Shanxi Jin opera “Killing the Dog 殺狗”)

#晉劇 #晋剧 #山西 #ChineseOpera

I was told we’d have jet packs by 2023, but this is a close second.

“Fu Lai 福來” of Henan demonstrates his Qu opera 曲劇 one-person marching-orchestra contraption.

#Quju #曲劇 #曲剧 #河南 #ChineseOpera

Artists at work: 75-year-old Beijing opera / Hebei Clapper opera star Pei Yanling 裴艷玲 (masked) beats the crap out of a much younger man in a rehearsal of “Drunken Pounding at the Temple Gates 醉打山門”, filmed a couple days ago in Hong Kong.

#ChineseOpera #河北梆子 #京剧

Three cheers for opera troupes who broadcast their 9:30 am performances. They happily coincide with my cocktail hour here in San Francisco.

(The Dapingdiao 大平調 troupe of Neihuang 內黃 county performs “Li Yanlong Tames the South 李彥龍征 aka The Two Scholars 文武雙狀元”）

You’ll occasionally find troupes in that region who give three performances a day, each performance lasting 3-4 hours with an hour+ break in between shows.

Bring your own chair.

#ChineseOpera #大平調 #大平调 #Kuaishou #快手

@Ninedragonspot

#ChineseOpera #SFChinatown

My grandmother use to host Chinese opera "stars" in our ancestral home in SF Chinatown in the early 1900's and my mother use to take me to Chinese opera performances in Chinatown when I was young.

Never understood what was going on & hated the banging and hi pitched "singing" which are still not pleasing to my ear but I'm glad someone else apparently understands and appreciates it's historical and cultural significance.

I’m still enchanted by the high-pitched “second voice” of Dapingdiao 大平調 opera.

Emperor Chongzhen, played by Neihuang county’s Zhang Junhong 張軍紅, prepares to hang himself on Meishan hill.

#大平調 #大平调 #Dapingdiao #ChineseOpera

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”)

#BeijingOpera. #京劇 #京剧 #ChineseOpera

#ChineseOpera #Taiwan #photography wish everyone a merry Christmas!

It doesn’t matter how many times I watch Yam Kim-Fai (#任劍輝), I can’t see ‘him’ as a woman. It fascinates me. Pak Suet-Sin (#白雪仙) fascinates me full stop. https://youtube.com/watch?v=x3FMOYHyZek&feature=share #YamKimFai #PakSuetSin #CantoneseOpera #HongKong #ChineseOpera