Established in January 1955, China National Peking Opera Company (CNPOC) is one of the national ensembles of performance arts directly under the Ministry of Culture, People's Republic of China. The first President of the Company is the Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang. The company consists of Group One, Group Two, Group Three, Stage Art Center, Creation and Research Center, Marketing and Promotion Department, Mei Lanfang Grand Theatre and so on.

Since its founding, the company has brought together a large number of outstanding performing artists and playwrights, directors, composers and stage artists, who enjoy a high reputation both at home and abroad, such as Li Shaochun, Yuan Shihai, Ye Shenglan, Du Jinfang, Weng Ouhong and Fan Junhong, Ajia, Zheng Yiqiu and Liu Jidian, etc. With a galaxy of masters, CNPOC has grown into a performing organization of Peking Opera with competitive strengths.

For 60 years, CNPOC has inherited, created, and staged more than 500 traditional, new-style historical and modern Peking Opera plays with various themes and forms. It upholds an art spirit of inheritance, innovation, being ready to learn from other artistic forms and good at portraying characters. Moreover, it has created an artistic style featuring rich contents, profound thoughts, novel stage design, various schools, and the well-balanced cast. The repertoire of CNPOC includes “Wild Boar Forest”, “Three Attacks on Zhu’s Manor”, “Lv Bu and Diaochan”, “the Legend of the White Snake”, “Under Willows – Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai”, “Poyang Lake”, “Xie Yaohuan”, “On the Crossroad”, “Mu Guiying Taking Command”, “Havoc in the Heavenly Kingdom”, “All Red is the River – A Patriot Wronged”, “Women Generals of the Yang Family”, “The Red Lantern”, “Fighting on the Plains”, “Red Women Soldiers”, “Chuncao Breaking in the Court”, “Yang Kaihui”, “Sister Jiang”, “Princess Wencheng”, which enjoy huge popularity among the audience.

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