Cantonese opera

plural Cantonese operas

1. countableuncountableA major category of Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Cantonese culture, and involving music, singing, martial arts, acrobatics, and acting.

   My research on Chinese immigrant theater (in the form of Cantonese opera) in nineteenth-century America brought me to San Francisco. From the first documented performance to today's occasional productions, Cantonese opera in the Bay Area has had a continuous history of over a century and a half.

   2007, Janelle G. Reinelt, Joseph R. Roach, Critical Theory and Performance, →ISBN, page 156