How is Chinese opera similar to or different from Western opera?
But they could turn a table into a mountaintop, right? Most share a common movement vocabulary, similar costume and makeup techniques, and regularly perform on bare stage without a contextualizing physical environment other than a table and a chair or two chairs. They relied on their bodies, voices, and costumes to create the performance. Most forms developed from an itinerant tradition where artists traveled from place to place carrying with them what they needed for the show. What holds these forms together as a genre is the fact that they use certain commonalities in their performance style. This stresses the importance of the aural performance structure. In China it was traditionally said "I listen to theater," not "I see theater" ( Wǒ tīng xì not wǒ kàn xì). The other forms are more regional operas called Difangxi, which means "theater of the region." A lot of the other kinds of opera, including Cantonese opera, or Sichuan opera, are performed in local languages, which are completely incomprehensible to somebody from a different part of China. Another form is called Kunqu, which some people know outside of China. The most widely known opera form in China is Beijing opera because Mandarin, the dialect of the Beijing area, is the national language.
Susan Pertel Jain: In China, there are over 250 different types of opera. What makes Sichuan opera different from other Chinese operas? Samantha Webster: We are excited to partner with the UCLA Confucius Institute to present a performance of Sichuan opera in honor of the Chinese New Year Spring Festival.
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