A Brief Account of My Participation in the Peking and Kunqu Opera Course by Lee Woo Sing College of the CUHK

The Peking and Kunqu opera course offered by Lee Woo Sing College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) was jointly founded in 2014 by Dr Lee Woo-sing, patron of the College and acclaimed Peking opera connoisseur; Dr Koo Ti-hua, a member of the Committee of Overseers of the College and a disciple of Chinese opera maestro Yu Zhenfei; and Mrs Dorothy Koo. It was the first credit-bearing course that included Peking and Kunqu opera performance training for students at a local university. It encompassed three main areas of training—the dan (female) role in Peking opera, the sheng (male) role in Kunqu, and the dan role in Kunqu. Apart from the credit-bearing course, there was also a non-credit class for advanced learners. Starting from early 2016, I took part in the training for the sheng role in Kunqu. What follows is a record of my learning experience.