Li's husband, Geng Qichang, has performed for decades. She won the prestigious Chinese Opera Plum Blossom Award and gained the title of National First Grade Performer.
Li Weikang, now a professor at the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts, will perform her masterpiece Farewell, My Concubine, in which she stars as Yuji, the imperial consort of Xiang Yu, who lost the battle to Liu Bang at the end of the Qin Dynasty (221 BC-AD 207). I'm so excited about watching their performance live," Zhu says. "The three of them used to perform frequently at the Spring Festival Chinese Opera Gala on CCTV, but they haven't appeared regularly since 2005. He has been watching their performances for years.
Zhu is delighted that his favorite stars - Li Weikang, Geng Qichang and Feng Zhixiao - will be there. In cooperation with China National Peking Opera Company, the venue will present the most popular Peking Opera artists singing the best-known melodies on Feb 14, the first day of the Year of the Tiger. It is regarded as an expression of the aesthetic ideal of opera in traditional Chinese society and remains a widely recognized element of the country's cultural heritage.Forty-eight-year-old teacher Zhu Zhiliang goes to the Forbidden City Concert Hall every Spring Festival to watch a Peking Opera performance. Peking Opera is transmitted largely through master-student training with trainees learning basic skills through oral instruction, observation and imitation. Costumes are flamboyant and the exaggerated facial make-up uses concise symbols, colours and patterns to portray characters' personalities and social identities. Traditionally, stage settings and props are kept to a minimum. Performance is characterized by a formulaic and symbolic style with actors and actresses following established choreography for movements of hands, eyes, torsos, and feet. 'Civilian plays' emphasize string and wind instruments such as the thin, high-pitched jinghu and the flute dizi, while 'military plays' feature percussion instruments like the bangu or daluo. The music of Peking Opera plays a key role in setting the pace of the show, creating a particular atmosphere, shaping the characters, and guiding the progress of the stories. They tell stories of history, politics, society and daily life and aspire to inform as they entertain. Peking Opera is sung and recited using primarily Beijing dialect, and its librettos are composed according to a strict set of rules that prize form and rhyme.
Although widely practised throughout China, its performance centres on Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. Peking Opera is a performance art incorporating singing, reciting, acting, martial arts. Ģ010，Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity Chinese-American director Chen Shi-zheng will premiere his adaptation of Peking Opera production,įarewell My Concubine, which was first performed by Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang in 1922.
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