Italian and Chinese artists tackle Faust by Goethe

Take a famous European literary work, put artists from Italy, China and Germany together on it, and finally add ancient and modern music traditions. From such path, a new experimental play was born and put on major stage of the Italian capital - the Argentina Theater - from Tuesday to Sunday this week.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe's masterpiece Faust tale was performed by the artists of the Peking Opera, with music and arrangements from both Italian and Chinese composers.

The play is a coproduction between Italy's Emilia Romagna Theater Foundation and the China National Peking Opera, and was born out of an idea of German director Anna Peschke in 2014.