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Cantonese Opera Art Festival in Guangzhou
A quadrennial celebration of Cantonese opera held in Guangzhou every four years since 1990, now the largest and most influential festival of its kind in China. Editions gather thousands of professional and amateur performers from mainland China and overseas Cantonese opera communities in the United States, Canada and New Zealand for several weeks of full opera productions and gala performances across multiple venues in the city.
Guangzhou's Cantonese Opera Art Festival runs on one of the longest cycles of any major Chinese performing arts festival: once every four years since 1990, a spacing that has let it grow into the largest and most influential event of its kind in the country rather than a smaller annual showcase competing for attention every year.