Opera · ST10812
Liyuan Opera
Plays handed down from early southern drama, with delicate stage steps and lilting songs.
2works
Mural guide
On an old stage in Quanzhou a young female role moves through the eighteen basic steps, her hands turning lightly, while at the side one musician holds a bent-neck nanpa lute crosswise and another plays the dongxiao flute.
Quanzhou's eight-century living fossil of southern drama