For many Chinese fans, the 2011-filmed 25th anniversary celebration of "The Phantom of the Opera" at London's Royal Albert Hall, widely circulated online, proved a far more accessible introduction to ...

These delicate recordings came back to life when the school's library completed the digitization of its first batch: 50 vinyl records recorded between 1907 and 1913. These records primarily feature ...

The University of Michigan Department of Music Theory hosted a lecture Thursday afternoon by alum Nancy Rao, distinguished professor of music and Chinese American music at Rutgers University. The ...

The Black Box Xiqu Performance Season brings contemporary renditions of traditional Chinese opera. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The 2025 Black Box Xiqu Performance Season wrapped up on Dec 31 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An early rehearsal for Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's "The Monkey King" with the Monkey puppet. (Cory Weaver/San Francisco ...

The first flutes excavated in China were made from bone. Today, ones made from bamboo are widely used in Chinese music and opera This is the seventh in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

On Nov. 15, I was seated in the Nelson Music Room, eagerly awaiting people from all walks of life — elders with graying hair and hard-earned wrinkles, doe-eyed children so young their parents have to ...

A Beijing exhibition curated by Luo Ning uses rare vinyl records to trace nearly 100 years of Chinese music, from Peking Opera to early pop and beyond.

Without any formal musical training, he built China’s first jazz band and a song-and-dance troupe, defying gender norms while launching the country’s earliest music and film superstars. His ...

With a slight inhale, 81-year-old Zhen Jinling brought the short, ridged horn up to his mouth. He pursed his lips and blew into his suona — the sound part birdcall, part trumpet fanfare. From a bench ...