
Peking Opera Postpones NY Performances
By David Salazar(Image Courtesy of Oever)
The Peking Opera’s big return to New York as part of the first Chinese Cultural Heritage Festival has been postponed.
Per the official website, the performances will be rescheduled due to “unforeseen logistical issues,” but no new dates have been revealed at present.
The company was set to present “Westward Spread of Eastern Opera” on Jan. 17 and 18, 2025 at the David H. Koch Theater and features a collaboration with Tianjin Peking Opera Theater, Tianjin Youth Peking Opera Troupe, and Tianjin Art Vocational College. Audiences were set to experience four Peking Opera plays including “Legend of the White Snake,” “Three Times Stealing the Nine-Dragon Goblet,” “Farewell My Concubine,” and “Uproar in Heaven.” The cast originally featured Xiaoliang Shi (石晓亮) and Xiujun Zhao (赵秀君), both winners of the Plum Blossom Awards, as well as Chunyuan Tang (唐春园) and seven-year-old Zhiyuan Zheng (郑智元).
Meng Shi, the founder of Oever, the organization that produces the Cultural Heritage Festival, envisioned the project.
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