Chinese Opera DVD Consumer Version

Consumer verison. For version with public performance rights, see LYRDV-1003P

The Films of Deben Bhattacharya

"Chinese Opera" opens in the make-up room of the People's Theatre in Canton, where the cast is preparing for a 300-year-old Cantonese opera called Nliu Yi Chuan Su, a romance, and then moves on to an acrobatic training school for future opera stars. The DVD concludes with a performance by the Northern Opera Group in Beijing. The viewer is given an in-depth, first-hand experience of this fascinating ancient art form.
One DVD program with English narration. 28 minutes. Film originally released in 1983.


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