Unlike costumes in Western operas, those in Chinese Opera are highly symbolic, hinting at the personality, social status and even the destiny of the operatic characters, characterised by their colours; both bold and subtle; their shimmering hairpieces and those...
Unique to Chinese opera is its 500-year-old colour cryptography; eye-catching make-up, also called the pattern, that is a feature of the art form with a history dating back to the sacrifices of ancient times.
The development of make up in...
The outsider might think of Chinese Opera as a Chinese version of Opera; just singing and dancing to the music with the lyrics in Chinese. That may be so for Chinese Opera’s common features, but therein is a world...
