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'bilingual' Peking opera
People's Daily, April 12, 2005 - On the evening of April 1, the Beijing Chang'an Theater shrouded in hazy spring
rain was full of affection as a Peking opera was staged there. The theater
welcomed in a group of special spectators: More than one hundred foreign
friends. Some of them are correspondents stationed in Beijing and their families
from 11 countries, including Indonesia, Italy, Germany, Qatar, Spain, Malaysia,
Cuba, Turkey and Pakistan, some are foreign students studying Chinese language
and culture at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, as well as
foreign tourists hosted by travel services.
What's more surprising is that the list of Peking operas previously staged for
foreign friends were usually either "Stealing Fairy Grass", "Picking Up Jade
Bracelet", or the "Fork in a Road", and "Creating an Uproar in the Heavenly
Palace", all these were basically highlights from operas featuring acrobatic
fighting and fairy tales, but this time, the Beijing Peking Opera Theater staged
for foreigners the "Prosperity Brought by the Dragon and the Phoenix", a Chinese
opera characterized by singing and acting. To help foreign friends overcome
language barriers, English captions were used in the performance from libretto
to the spoken parts, thus making the performance a "bilingual" Peking opera
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