Opera · ST10807
Ping Opera (Pingju)
Plainspoken plays of family and marriage, telling the joys and sorrows of ordinary households.
2works
Mural guide
On the small stage of a teahouse a female role in a plain cloth blouse sings and speaks with a handkerchief in hand, tea drinkers at the square tables below hold covered cups, and the branches of an old locust tree reach in at the window.
A young opera grown from eastern Hebei lotus-flower ballads, sung like plain speech