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China National Peking Opera Company in Liverpool

One of China’s most spectacular Opera companies arrives in Liverpool next month. Ten years after their last visit to the UK in 2005, the magnificent China National Peking Opera Company returns for a strictly limited tour, visiting The Auditorium at Liverpool Echo Arena from 13th November 2015.

This is a rare opportunity to be immersed in the intriguing art of Peking Opera and enjoy a cultural adventure in Chinese traditional artistic heritage from a world class company and their two highly celebrated stars, Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu.

The company will be performing two astonishing masterpieces, Farewell My Concubine and the Warrior Women of Yang. The magnificent costumes and the artful combination of dance, mime, music and drama provide a source of wonder for audiences of all ages and an exceptional international experience that rarely comes to town.

This is opera, but not as you know it, as the Peking Opera mixes breath-taking acrobatic choreography and ancient Chinese traditional performing arts to provide the most amazing spectacle. A cast of 50 will mesmerise you with music, song, mime, intrinsically detailed costumes and exquisitely expressive make up whilst thrilling you with their jaw-dropping stage combat and acrobatics.

The Peking Opera is a unique art form. To achieve the highest level of performing skill often requires a lifelong dedication to practising the art. Most of the artists have to train from a very tender age at opera school before being an apprentice and learning from the masters.

Ming Ming Dong and Kevin Zhang, Directors of Sinolink Productions said: “With respect and honour, we are taking the opportunity of 2015 UK and China Cultural Exchange Year to present this fine, traditional art form of Peking Opera to the world to demonstrate that China is not just about what they can manufacture, but also about what they can perform. We sincerely hope the British audience will appreciate and be inspired by the masterpieces that the National Peking Opera Company are to bring to the UK.”

China National Peking Opera haven chosen to visit Liverpool is of huge cultural significance and is a thrilling theatrical experience not to be missed.

China National Peking Opera Company is at the Auditorium at Liverpool Echo Arena from 13th to 15th November 2015. Tickets cost £25 – £65 with £10 student tickets available. Book online at www.echoarena.com or call the Box Office on 0844 8000 400.

Samuel Payne
Samuel Paynehttp://samuelpayne.weebly.com
Reviewer of Theatre in the North, including releases of classic film and television.

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