World Heritage On Display

Beijing's celebrated Jingju Theater Company will stage two classical Peking Opera pieces in Australia as part of a cultural festival. Chen Nan reports.

When the Peking Opera Festival opened on Tuesday at the Darwin Entertainment Centre, audiences in Australia got the chance to see a troupe of nearly 70 Peking Opera actors and musicians from the Jingju Theater Company of Beijing, which is on tour through Dec 1.

Peking Opera, also known as jingju in Chinese, has a history of more than 200 years and was declared as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2010.