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The Children of the Beijing Opera

Television Director: Kent, Don

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Playing Time: 00:52:20

Catalogue Number: BAC038

UPC: 3760115300385

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In granting us the rare privilege of entry, the Beijing Opera School offers access to the age-old art from of traditional Chinese opera. Based on a typical day for students and their teachers, the film lets us follow them through dawn-to-dusk activities that include acrobatics, classes in singing, music and dance, makeup sessions, schoolwork, rehearsals and performances. This is a total immersion in an establishment where discipline is, in many respects, that of a military academy.