A Peking Opera artist from China performs during a gala evening titled "The Spirit of the Great Wall," in London, Britain, ...

Peking Opera is both graceful and agile, requiring performers to learn singing, dancing, acting and acrobatics. It has clearly defined roles: sheng, lao sheng, huadan, qingyi and hualian.

Plays, Peking opera, Cantonese opera ... How do you make it into a two- or two-and-a-half-hour opera?” Sheng said he replied, “Look, someone’s got to do this. And I think you and I could ...