Troupe members checking their names on a list at a roll call before a performance at an outdoor theatre. — AFP
The future doesn’t seem rosy for opera performers who once thought they would have job stability, while keeping alive a traditional art form.
FOR the 50-year-old Chinese opera performer, every aspect of the dimly-lit backstage room was a reminder that things had changed.
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