Chongqing Municipal Opera Theater

The Theater was established in 1953, which grew out of the Experimental Opera Troupe of Southwest People's Art Theater. Since its establishment, the Theater has presented more than 80 plays, such as The White-haired Girl, Liu Hulan, The Song of Grassland, Red Sun Above the Keshan Mountain, Red Guards of Honghu Lake, Liu Sanjie, Loving Heart, Peddler and Young Lady, Red Cloud on the Cliff, Torch Festival, Crying Bride, Goddess of Wushan Mountain. Of them, Torch Festival gained awards of creation, directing, player, setting designing, scenery, accompaniment at the national emulating opera performance of contemporary theme drama in 1984, and was also commended by the Art Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, the China Opera Researching Society and the municipal and provincial governments. Crying Bride got awards of script, music, performance, directing, player and chore-graph at the 1st Invitational Festival of Opera in Sichuan Province: Goddess of Wushan Mountain won Wenhua New Program Prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture in 1998, and directing, music, player awards as well.

The leading artists of the Theater, Zhai Qiufang, Li Hongwen, Wu Xiaoping, Ke Yumai, Wang Yulian and Zhang Lihui.

Address: No.263, Eight-one, Yu Zhong District, Chongqing

Post code: 400010

Tel: (023) 63815279

Fax: (023) 63736564