page_title: Yue opera
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Yue opera / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A en:Shaoxing opera performance of en:Yulan Ji in en:Tianchan Theatre, Shanghai, China. The actresses were students at en:Shanghai Theatre Academy.
context_page_description: Yue opera, also known as Shaoxing opera, is the second most popular Chinese opera genre. Only Peking opera is more popular nationwide.
  Originating in Shengzhou, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in 1906, Yue opera features actresses in male roles as well as femininity in terms of singing, performing, and staging. Despite its rural origin, it has found a second home in Shanghai, China's most affluent city, where it managed to out-compete both Peking opera and the native Shanghai opera. Besides Shanghai and Zhejiang, major markets are found in Jiangsu and Fujian, while hundreds of troupes still operate all over China. Like its performers, Yue opera fans are mainly women, resulting in a disproportionate number of love stories in its repertoire and very little acrobatic fighting.
caption: A performance of Yulan Ji by Shanghai Theatre Academy students in 2014.
exif: {"Image Make": "PENTAX", "Image Model": "PENTAX K-5 II s", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "K-5 II s Ver 1.04", "Image DateTime": "2014:12:14 16:04:10", "Image Artist": "", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image Copyright": "", "Image ExifOffset": "706", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 3, 0, 0]", "Image GPSInfo": "54498", "Image PrintIM": "[80, 114, 105, 110, 116, 73, 77, 0, 48, 51, 48, 48, 0, 0, 0, 33, 0, 1, 0, 22, ... ]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "300", "Thumbnail YResolution": "300", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "54610", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "8170", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/250", "EXIF FNumber": "9/2", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Manual", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "500", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2014:12:14 16:04:10", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2014:12:14 16:04:10", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "-2", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "90", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "4928", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "3264", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "54468", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Manual Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "135", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF Contrast": "Hard", "EXIF Saturation": "Soft", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "3"}