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A Cantonese opera exhibit at the Hong Kong Museum of History, 2008. Hats and helmets signify social status, age and capability: scholars and officials wear black hats with wings on either side; generals wear helmets with pheasants ' tail feathers; soldiers wear ordinary hats, and kings wear crowns .
The Hong Fook Tong Chinese Dramatic Company (Cantonese: 鴻福堂劇團 [1], romanized: Hung⁴ Fuk¹ Tong⁴ Kek⁶ Tyun⁴) [2] [3] [note 1] was an all-male [4] San Francisco, California-based Cantonese opera company which became the first major Asian American theatrical company in the country, inaugurating the first phase of the history of Chinese opera [note 2] in the United States. [5]
The Red Boat Opera Company (Chinese: 紅船) was a group of traveling Cantonese opera singers who toured China in the late 1800s and early 1900s. [1]Cantonese opera was popularized in the 18th century, primarily by the Red Boat Troupes who traveled the Pearl River Delta during the late Qing dynasty until World War 2.
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Cantonese opera is the style of opera associated with the Cantonese language. Listed as an intangible cultural heritage of the world, [26] it originated in the late 13th century and is a stage art that combines acrobatics, singing, martial arts, and acting. Cantonese opera also uses a different set of musical instruments.
Cheung Wood-yau worked closely with Tang and his wife in Hong Kong throughout [Note 1] 1942 to 1945 on stage as a Cantonese opera performer. He played Jia Baoyu in a 1949 film, shortly after the war and before the era of "separation of cinema and opera" movement. Cantonese opera as his background, first and foremost career choice, was not ...
An early form of Chinese drama is the Canjun Opera (參軍戲, or Adjutant Play) which originated from the Later Zhao Dynasty (319–351 AD). [10] [11] [12] In its early form, it was a simple comic drama involving only two performers, where a corrupt officer, Canjun or the adjutant, was ridiculed by a jester named Grey Hawk (蒼鶻). [10]
There is a debate about the origin(s) of Cantonese opera, but it is universally accepted that the predecessors of Cantonese opera originated from the northern part of China and slowly migrated to the southern province of Guangdong in late 13th century, during the late Southern Song dynasty.