Description
The Children of the Beijing Opera
One minute on stage, ten years of training
In granting us the rare privilege of entry, the Beijing Opera School offers access to the age-old art form of traditional Chinese opera.
Based on a typical day for students and their teachers, the film lets us follow them through dawn-to-dusk activities that include acrobatics, classes in singing, music and dance, makeup sessions, schoolwork, rehearsals and performances.
This is total immersion in an establishment where discipline is, in many respects, that of a military academy.
The Children of the Beijing Opera
Sound : Antoine Rodet
Editing : Arnaud Petitet
Executive producers : François Duplat & Patricia Houtart
Written by Christian Dumais-Lvowski
Directed by Don Kent
Release date : 29 May 2008
Distribution : Naxos Distribution
1 DVD
Reference : BAC038
Barcode : 3760115300385
Running time : 52 min.
Subtitles : FR / ANG / ALL
Image : Color, 4/3 LETTERBOX, NTSC
Sound : PCM 2.0
Region code : 0
