Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company is a
theatre company
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perfor ...
based in
Shanghai
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...
,
China, which produces Jingju (i.e.
Peking Opera
Peking opera, or Beijing opera (), is the most dominant form of Chinese opera, which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It arose in Beijing in the mid-Qing dynasty (1644–1912) and became fully developed and recognize ...
).
It was founded in 1955, with
Zhou Xinfang its director. The Shanghai Beijing-Opera Theatre is at 168 Yueyang Road,
Xuhui, Shanghai.
Although the
Yue opera
Yue opera, also known as Shaoxing opera, is the Chinese opera genre. Only Peking opera is more popular nationwide.
Originating in Shengzhou, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in 1906, Yue opera features actresses in male roles as well as femininity ...
as performed at the
Shanghai Yueju Yuan is geographically nearer to Shanghai, Peking Opera has long had a following in Shanghai, just as southern opera styles have a following in northern China.
Other famous jingju troupes include the
China National Peking Opera Company in Beijing, the Beijing Jingju Yuan (
北京京剧院), the Shanghai Youth Jing-Kun Troupe (
上海青年京崑劇團), Shenyang Jingju Yuan (
沈阳京剧院), Fujian Jingju Yuan (
福建京劇院) and the Taipei New Theatre (
臺北新劇團). Defunct troupes include the Chongya Company of 1916 (
崇雅社) and the Sanqingban 1790-1890 (
三庆班).
References
External links
Official website
1955 establishments in China
Theatre companies in Shanghai
Peking opera troupes
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