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The best Peking Opera for foreigners is the show at Liyuan Theatre.
Beijing Opera at the Liyuan Theatre
The Liyuan theater is a place for performance co-funded by Qianmen Hotel and Beijing Opera Theater.
The show is casted by Beijing Opera Theater.
Where: No.175,Yong an Road Xuan Wu District, Beijing
When: 7:30pm, usually seven nights a week
Price per person
Service includes: Ticket + Guide + One way transfer.
| Service item | Single |
Twin |
Triple |
Group |
| Peking Opera | 76 |
45 |
35 |
30 |
Ticket Category
Single ticket - book ticket for one person, the total cost is USD 76 + 4.4% transaction fee
Twin ticket - book tickets for two persons, the total cost is USD 90 + 4.4% transaction fee
Tripple ticket - book tickets for three persons, the total cost is USD 105 + 4.4% transaction fee
Group ticket - book tickets for four persons or more
Price Include:
-- B class Show ticket for Beijing Opera at Liyuan Theatre.
-- Hotel/theatre one way transfer by air-conditioned company coach.
-- Service of English speaking tour guide before the show starts.
-- Guiding service to find the reserved seats.
Price Exclude:
-- Insurance.
-- Expenditure of a personal nature, such as drinks, souvenirs, etc
-- Extra cost for transfer from theatre to hotel after the show.
-- Gratuities to service staffs.
Book Beijing Opera Ticket online
Thousands of our clients have paid through PayPal to book tickets in this way. If you have not booked your tickets sucessfully, we guarantee to send 100% refund to your paypal account.
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Thousands of our clients have paid through PayPal to book tickets in this way. If you have not received your tickets, we guarantee to send 100% refund to your paypal account.
Important Notice:
Hotel Pickup - Ticket + Guide + One way transfer:
The Peking Opera starts at 19h30. Our our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel. Please wait in the lobby at 19h00.
Why so expensive for Single ticket / 1 person
No one shares the cost with you for a 7-seat van with driver and tour guide.
Telephone Confirm
Our tour guide will make a phone call one day prior, usually at 22pm to your hotel, first find out which room you stay in, then talk with you to double confirm the pickup time and pickup place. If you are not in the room, we will leave a note or voice mail at the reception desk.
The purpose for this telephone call is to make sure that you have checked in the hotel. So in case you have not checked in the hotel for any reason, please telephone us immediately at: 86-20-22822049.
Take a taxi Liyuan theatre to your hotel after the show
Our tour guide will leave the Liyuan theatre after helping you to find the seat. After the show, please take a taxi back to the hotel by yourself. This cost is not included in our quotation. If you need the driver and tour guide to wait for you, please tell us when you book the ticket, an extra cost will be informed.
Need to cancel the ticket
No cancellation fee if you change or cancel the booking 48 hours prior of the show day. We will send the refund to your paypal account. If you cancel the booking in 48 hours, no refund.
Need to change to another show day
Please inform us 48 hours prior of the show day, we will check the availability for seats, tour guide and driver, if we can not change to the required day, we will inform you as soon as possible, we will recommend another day, or send the refund to your paypal account as required.
History of Peking Opera
As one of the schools of opera that were formed in Beijing, Peking Opera has a history of nearly 200 years. Based on Hui Opera and Han Opera, it evolved by absorbing advantages of Kinshan opera, Qinqiang opera and other operas. Hui opera entered Beijing in the year of 1790. The first theatrical troupe of Hui opera that came to Beijing was the famous Sanqing Squad. After them, came Sixi Squad, Hechun Squad and Chuntai Squad. Together, they were called "the Four Anhui Squads".
Peking Opera formally took shape after the twentieth year of Daoquang Eeign (1840). At this phase, its different melodies had already been developed, its types of roles and there were programs of performance with its own style. The first generation of actors of Peking Opera had emerged, too. Among them, Yu Sheng san, Zhang Er'kui, Cheng Changgeng was called "the best three actors of laosheng". Besides them, laosheng actor and Peking Opera playwright Lu Shengkui was very famous, too. Cheng Changgeng was the representative figure of this period. He had made far more efforts than any of his contemporary actors in combining Han Opera and Hui Opera and absorbing, converting and promoting Kunshan Opera. He had contributed a lot to the development of Peking Opera and greatly influenced its performing art.
The division of types of roles in Peking Opera is very strict. At its early stage, there were all together seven types: Sheng, Dan, Jing, Mo, Chou, Wuhang, Liuhang(Longtao), eventually,they combined into four types: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou.
The costumes in Peking opera are graceful, magnificent, elegant and brilliant, most of which are made in handicraft embroidery. As the traditional Chinese pattern are adopted, the costumes are of a high aesthetic value. The types of facial make-ups in Peking opera are rich and various, depicting different characters and remarkable images, therefore they are highly appreciated. Moreover there are numerous fixed editions of facial make-up. Since Mei Lanfang, the grand master of Peking opera, visited Japan in 1919, Peking opera has become more and more popular with people all over the world, and it has made an excellent contribution to cultural exchange between China and the West, to friendly association and to improvement of solidarity.
Mei Lanfang was one of the greatest performing artists of Peking Opera. His best performance includs: The Blade of the Universe, Farewell to My Concubine, In the Garden and the Start of the Dream, Mu Ke Stockade and Emperor Mu, Mulan Joins the Army, Counterattack Against the Jin Troupes, The Grieve of the Living and Dead, Xi Shi, The Goddess of Luo River, and the play he wrote himself in his later years, Mu Guiying Took Command.
