It not like a movie, and right now people want things to be fast. One performer said, “The whole thing is very slow. Another factor is the fact that it has changed little in 200 years and subject matter and strange singing style are simply too esoteric for most people.
In survey more than 50 percent of the respondents said that a plan by the education ministry to introduce a new program to generate interest in Peking Opera was a waste of money.Ĭhinese opera is primarily a victim of television, films, pop music, karaokes and other forms of popular entertainment. In Beijing, this is less than a driver employed by a household often earns. The average Peking Opera performer can hope for a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan. In recent years Beijing Opera has been reduced to the heavily subsidized fare of state television. One actor told the Los Angeles Times they laugh and take pictures and make him “feel like an animal I a zoo.” Before performances staged for tourists, the audience is sometimes allowed into the dressing room to watch the actors put on their make up. But there have been incidents in recent years where even free shows have failed to attract a full house. Tickets to a Peking Opera performance today cost between 30-1,000 yuan (US$4-140). Even though the Hugang theater receives both private and government funding it still loses money, and even though university students and other groups are given free admission, many of the seats for performances are empty. Most of the shows performed at the theater are for tourists or visiting officials. Hugang Theater in Beijing has one show a week, on Saturday morning, for elderly fans. These day only local repertory companies remains. Each of the cities 18 districts had its own performing troupe.
Beijing once had dozens of theaters and teahouses that staged full-length operas nearly every night of the week.
The art form is in danger of vanishing completely within a generation. There are no schools left devoted exclusively to Peking Opera, and shows are often lightly attended even when tickets are given out free. The audience for Peking Opera is declining at a rate if about 5 percent a year. Opera stars who didn't like her ideas were forced to do lighting and play minor roles. English subtitles During the Cultural Revolution, Mao's wife Jiang Qing almost singlehandedly destroyed 200 years of Chinese opera traditions by forcing actors to don workers uniforms and allowing only eight commentary "model operas" about class and imperialist struggle to be staged.
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