Four opera shows this weekend

The Sea of Blood Opera Company from the DPRK will perform four shows of its latest production, A Dream of Red Mansions, at Beijing's BTV Theatre from Thursday to Sunday.

DPRK's late Chairman Kim Il-sung initiated a Korean adaptation of the original Chinese Yueju Opera show in the 1960s. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was invited by current DPRK leader Kim Jong-il to watch the show when he visited Pyongyang last September.

"We've performed more than 50 shows in front of some 100,000 people - both senior citizens who watched the opera in the 1960s and for the youth who are not familiar with the story," Kim Yong-rok, production director of the company, told China Daily.