Chinese Opera Season 2025 kicks off in Vienna
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Ming Wenjun, president of the China Opera Research Society, officially launched the season, highlighting that the diversity of theatrical styles presented reflects a core value of Chinese culture-harmony in diversity.
The Chinese Opera Season 2025 opened here on Saturday night with a performance of the traditional Wu Opera “The Legend of the White Snake”, marking the beginning of a series of Chinese operatic performances in the Austrian capital.
A total of eight productions will be staged in Vienna this year, featuring a variety of opera styles including Wu Opera, Kunqu Opera and Yue Opera.
Ming Wenjun, president of the China Opera Research Society, officially launched the season, highlighting that the diversity of theatrical styles presented reflects a core value of Chinese culture-harmony in diversity.
The opening performance, staged at Vienna’s Das MuTh concert hall, brought to life the classic romantic tale of Bai Suzhen, a woman transformed from a white snake, and her love for the scholar Xu Xian.
Originating in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Wu Opera is renowned for its blend of dynamic action scenes and traditional performance techniques.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
