Young Kunqu Opera Singer is Rising Star

摘要

It is not rare nowadays to find teenage performers on stage, but I was still quite surprised to see a fourteen-year-old performing Chinese kunqu opera so maturely. Last December, Shan Wen, a trainee of the Jiangsu Provincial Kunqu Theatre, gave a superb performance of the kunqu classic "Peony Pavilion", winning the first prize for the youth group at the First National "Red Plum" Theatre Competition.