Regional Operas

Chinese National Opera (Minzu Geju)

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Chinese opera with a full composed score for each work, drawing on folk song and traditional opera

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Kunqu Opera

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An early opera form grown from the Kunshan tune, known for its refined 'water-mill' singing

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Peking Opera

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A nationwide form born in Beijing from Anhui and Hubei troupes, sung to xipi and erhuang

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Cantonese Opera

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Bangzi and erhuang sung in Cantonese, across Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and overseas

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Huangmei Opera

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An Anhui opera from Huangmei tea-picking songs, sung in the Anqing dialect

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Yu Opera (Henan Opera)

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The bangzi opera of the Central Plains, plain-spoken and earthy in song

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Ping Opera (Pingju)

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A young opera grown from eastern Hebei lotus-flower ballads, sung like plain speech

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Qinqiang Opera

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The root of northwestern bangzi opera, sung high, fierce and plaintive

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Sichuan Opera

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Sichuan's five-tune opera, known for face-changing and other stage feats

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Han Opera

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Hubei's old pihuang opera and a source of Peking Opera

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Xiang Opera

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Hunan's principal regional opera, joining gaoqiang and tanqiang

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Liyuan Opera

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Quanzhou's eight-century living fossil of southern drama

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Puxian Opera

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A living fossil of Song-Yuan drama, grown from Xinghua zaju

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Tibetan Opera

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Masked open-air music drama of the Tibetan Plateau

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Gan Opera

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Jiangxi's main opera, still carrying the Yiyang tune

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Teochew Opera (Chaozhou Opera)

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A branch of southern drama sung in Teochew

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Jin Opera (Shanxi Opera)

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Central Shanxi's Zhonglu clapper opera

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Gezai Opera (Taiwanese Opera)

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A Minnan-language opera that grew from Yilan folk song and is performed on both sides of the Taiwan Strait

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Shanghai Opera (Huju)

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From tanhuang and shenqu to Shanghai's own regional opera

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Lü Opera (Lüju)

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A rural Shandong opera that began as qinshu storytelling put into costume

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Yuan Zaju

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Yuan-era northern drama of four acts and a single lead singer

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