According to Global Times, Peking Opera actors delivered a great performance during the play “Don Quixote, Errant Knight” in Guanajuato, Mexico, on Oct. 17, 2016.
Peking Opera performers from China’s Guizhou Province presented a play based on the most famous work of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra during the 44th International Cervantino Festival.
The Peking Opera, from the Guizhou Province, delivered a magnificent performance in which 40 artists including musicians and actors, represented two classical worlds that shaped the imagination in a festive and colorful cacophony with a bold proposal.
Within its popular style, The Peking Oper moderated the show’s singing, dialogue and dance offering a peculiar reading of the great novel of Cervantes through the lyrical virtuosity.
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The story is framed in the seventeenth century and portrayed a gentleman of La Mancha of about 50 years, after reading many books of chivalry, he decides to disguise himself as knight and embark on a series of adventures with his old horse named “Rocinante”.
The importance of the Peking Opera to the world is undeniable, in fact it was named “Intangible Heritage of Humanity” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the year 2010.
Source: Xinhua / http://www.globaltimes.cn