Old art form, new experience

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     It is curtain up for the Xiqu Centre today (January 20). The West Kowloon Cultural District's first landmark performing arts venue will offer audiences a unique opera-going experience. The arts hub is reviving an old tradition by bringing together Cantonese opera and tea-drinking at its Tea House Theatre.

     News.gov.hk spoke to the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority's Executive Director of Performing Arts and to a Cantonese opera actor to learn more about the centre's design and its facilities.

     The story appears on news.gov.hk today in text and video format.

Ends/Sunday, January 20, 2019
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