Cantonese Opera Museum: Fine Art and Staging, Remarkable Experience

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Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Art Museum
The Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Art Museum is located at No. 127 Enning Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou and opened to the public on June 8, 2016.The museum covers an area of 17,200 square meters and a construction area of 21,700 square meters. It adopts a garden-style design with Lingnan style and water village characteristics. The museum has exhibition halls, stages, theaters and other facilities, which showcase the development history, artistic characteristics and influence of Cantonese Opera at home and abroad. The museum also regularly hosts night opening activities to provide a wealth of night tour experiences, including Cantonese opera and Quyi performances and educational activities. Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Art Museum not only showcase the history and development of Cantonese Opera, but also promote the inheritance and development of Cantonese opera culture through regular performances.
Cantonese Opera, also known as Guangfu Opera or Guangdong Opera, is the largest genre of Cantonese opera in Guangdong and Guangxi.It originated in Foshan and is sung in Cantonese. It is popular in Guangdong Province, southern Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macau and other places, and has spread to Cantonese overseas Chinese settlements in Southeast Asia and the United States.
The formation of Cantonese opera can be traced back to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It originated from Southern Opera and absorbed the Haiyan cavity, Yiyang cavity, Kunshan cavity, clapper cavity and other cavities, and gradually formed in combination with the folk music of the Pearl River Delta.Around 1912, Cantonese opera performances have basically changed to the Guangzhou dialect, and the performance system has become more and more perfect. Folk songs in minor key began to be interspersed with bangs, and falsetto singing was changed to ”flat throat" singing.
Representative works
Cantonese Opera has many classic repertoire, such as "Emperor Female Flower", "Purple Hairpin", "Peony Pavilion" and so on.These plays are not only loved by the audience, but also occupy an important position in the history of Chinese opera. All of them are demonstrated in the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Museum during daily performances with high enthusiasm.

Post by MaxS | Mar 3, 2025