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In a training room of Shipai Center Primary School in Kunshan City pupils practice basic skills of Kunqu Opera under the guidance of a full-time teac

Cheng Yu, a virtuoso of pipa (a fretted lute with four strings) and guqin (a seven-stringed Chinese zither), has been living in London, the United

The opera Roméo et Juliette by French composer Charles Gounod and the stage drama Les Misérables by French director Jean Bellorini are perfect proof of the fruitful cultural exchanges between China and France over the past 60 years

A metal bed sits in the middle of the rehearsal stage. Chinese actor Liu Ye stands next to it, sometimes whispering and sometimes running around the bed. With days left before the preview of the Chinese edition of French classic Les Misérables in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province on Friday and Saturday, he has been rehearsing for his role Jean Valjean, a convict who spent 19 years in prison just for stealing a piece of bread for his sister's starving children.

 On December 27, the classic Wuxi Opera "The Pearl Pagoda" was performed in Nanjing, featuring seven generations of distinguished opera artists from Wuxi ...