This is a Peking Opera show at night with round-way transfer and English-speaking tour guide to direct you to the theater.
The Beijing Opera is a traditional form of night entertainment that combines music, singing, mime, dance and acrobatics. The Opera was very popular in the Qing Dynasty and has come to be regarded as on of China’s culture treasures. Book tickets with BOTRIP and you will be able to enjoy one if Chinas treasured art forms.
You will be picked up by your tour guide and driver around 5:30pm to 6:30pm. And enjoy the show from 7:15pm to 8:45pm.
Afterwards, you will be dropped off at your hotel.
Nice performance! Liyuan theatre was located near the Tiananmen Square.
Review by: Llamaschool, April 2016
You might watch Cannes Palme d'Or winner Farewell My Concubine before you decide to take in a Beijing Opera show. This venue is special in that it gives newcomers an introduction to Beijing Opera which can be a total shock if you've not been acclimated to the high-pitched vocals, extremely stylized movements, stereotyped characters that are immediately recognized by a Chinese audience, and so-on. Translations into English are given..at lightening speed, but that can't be helped on overhead monitors, and the one hour performance consists of four or five excerpts from some of the funniest or most impressive routines from the Beijing Opera repertoire. Still, on the night I went, at least five different tour groups of 30 people were in the audience and two of these groups filed in 10 minutes late, interrupting the show. 5-10 minutes later, 90 of these clowns had stood up and filed out of the theater, presumably because they were bored or unimpressed. If you think Peking Opera might really appeal to you, be prepared for this reaction from the uninitiated audience or better yet just attend a performance at one of the opera venues that does not try to introduce the genre to clueless foreign tourists.
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