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Cantonese opera en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A major category of Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Cantonese culture, and involving music, singing, martial arts, acrobatics, and acting.
   • My research on Chinese immigrant theater (in the form of Cantonese opera) in nineteenth-century America brought me to San Francisco. From the first documented performance to today's occasional productions, Cantonese opera in the Bay Area has had a continuous history of over a century and a half. 2007, Janelle G. Reinelt, Joseph R. Roach, Critical Theory and Performance, →ISBN, page 156:

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Translations (3)

cmn 粵劇 /粤剧 (a category of Chinese opera) · yue 大戲 /大戏 (a category of Chinese opera) · yue 粵劇 /粤剧 (a category of Chinese opera)