Zhang Huoding (born 24 January 1971) is a Peking opera singer. She is a singer in the "Cheng-pai" () tradition, or school of

Cheng Yanqiu Cheng Yanqiu (1 January 1904 – 9 March 1958) was a Chinese Peking opera singer. He is remembered as one of the 20th-century's great female impersonators, having specialized in Peking opera's female roles (''dan''). Life Cheng was born in Be ...

(程砚秋, 1904–1958). Zhang is best known in the West for the title role in the 2003 video of the revolutionary opera ''Sister Jiang'' directed by Zhang Yuan. She was seen in a

Chinese opera Traditional Chinese opera (), or ''Xiqu'', is a form of musical theatre in China with roots going back to the early periods in China. It is an amalgamation of various art forms that existed in ancient China, and evolved gradually over more tha ...

version of the '' Legend of the White Snake'' at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, New York City, in her US debut in 2015."Zhang Huoding of Peking Opera Takes a Turn in the United States"
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David Barboza David Barboza is an American journalist. Awards In 2013 David Barboza was part of the winning team from the staff of The New York Times that received the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. Other staff members on this team included: Charles ...

, '' The New York Times'', August 30, 2015

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