Pensioners keep historic opera alive
By Agence France-Presse in Kunming, China | China Daily | Updated: 2016-01-23 06:57
Part of the nation's Intangible Cultural Heritage, Yunnan opera's audience is steadily shrinking
White makeup covering their aged faces, Chinese performers - all aged over 50 - don richly-colored robes and false beards to belt out tunes passed down for more than two centuries.
The "Flower Lantern" Yunnan Opera troupe performs each day on a run-down stage, their droning instruments and melismatic singing mingling with sounds from a vegetable market next door.
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