Peking Opera Performers

Actors and singers of Peking opera, the Chinese stage tradition that joins song, speech, acrobatics, mime and stylized costume, including the male performers who specialized in the female dan roles. A person belongs here when the cited article names Peking opera as the performer's tradition. It excludes Western theatre performers and dancers. Its actors train from childhood in song, speech, gesture and martial movement, and its leading performers of the twentieth century toured abroad and helped make the form known worldwide.