Yang-May Ooi

Yang-May Ooi

London

,

United Kingdom

www.fusionview.co.uk
“An East/ West blog on writing, culture and the arts”

Chinese Opera

This clip from Al-Jazeera English on YouTube reminds me how much I enjoy the acrobatics in Chinese Opera - but how I have difficulty appreciating the music, acclimatized as I am to the Western harmonic scale. It’s also great fun that the female roles are played by men - which was of course poignantly dramatized in Farewell My Concubine.