Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. "The Legend of the White Snake" is one of the most famous Chinese tales. The story of a young scholar bewitched by a ...

1888 Durand’s Opera House was built, originally as a one-story building that housed a stove and a hardware store. 1891 The retail space was converted into an opera house, with the addition of a rear ...

BEIJING – On his first attempt, Nicholas Brownlee manages to spit out the sound "shee." His teacher patiently shakes her head. "It's not 'shee,' it's 'xi,'" she says, pronouncing something close to ...

Western operas rarely tackle Chinese themes. The notable exception is Giacomo Puccini's Turandot, which portrays a cunning princess in imperial Peking and has a score tinged with the nation's ...

2 Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI TomoeArts presents the world premiere of a provocative and heartrending new work, Kayoi Komachi/Komachi Visited, ...

As multidimensional as is the landscape of the Southwest that so attracted Zane Grey, so too is the documentary that chronicles the creation of an epic opera, based on one of his most famous novels, ...

Confirming Time magazine's prediction that "the future of opera may be in China," state-of-the-art Chinese theaters now showcase Western repertory and new Chinese works, while Chinese-born singers ...