China’s Southwestern region is home to fascinating culture not replicated anywhere else in the world. The region of Sichuan boasts an especially vibrant presence, especially in the lively city of Chengdu. Visitors seeking quality accommodation would do well in a serviced apartment in Chengdu. Of all the Chengdu apartments on offer, a choice option is the Somerset Riverview Chengdu which offers stylish contemporary lodging in the heart of the city, a great locale for both business and leisure visitors. Sichuan performance art offers a true delight to the cultural connoisseur in the form of Sichuan Opera, which is a delightful and entertaining performance by highly skilled artistes dedicated to the craft. The opera is characterised by intriguing solos, stellar acting, exquisite percussion and skilled comedians whose talent is simply unsurpassed worldwide. Featuring vivid and hilarious storytelling, artful acrobatics and singing, each performance is a visual treat designed to evoke awe and laughter from audiences. The show also boasts of highly stylized acting, which adds a dash of surreal absurdism to the event, but does not detract from the overall effect, which always promises and delivers an entertainment experience that is witty and full of spirited dialogues punctuated by local flavours. To emphasize certain characters, a lot of imaginative stunts are used, including the fascinating “face-changing”, where the actors rip off a closely-applied mask, which is almost like a second skin, to reveal a completely different character lurking beneath. The opera themes derive from traditional stories, mythologies, legends and folktales and each spectacular performance, with the creative array of technology used, manages to blur the line between fantasy and reality each time for a truly wondrous taste of Sichuan arts culture.
Angela Fernando is an impassioned travel writer who composes pieces under the pen name Sumaira Narayan. She loves writing about new and exciting places around the world and hopes to visit them all someday.
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