Where the past is a lesson for the future
By Huang Zhiling in Chengdu | China Daily | Updated: 2014-10-02 07:33
"Lower your leg, please," Wang Yumei gently said before helping her student Liang Xiaoju adjust her leg on a bar in a spacious room in the Chengdu School of Culture and Art in the western suburbs of the capital of Sichuan province.
Liang, 15, is one of 34 students in the Sichuan Opera class. With ages ranging from 9 to 17, the students will perform in the Sichuan Opera Theatre of Chengdu upon graduation in 2016.
"They will be the first school-trained Sichuan Opera performers enrolled in the theater in more than two decades, "said Wang, 39, an actress with the theater.
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