HONG KONG - the Hong Kong performing arts school will offer a degree of Cantonese Opera in the latest effort to preserve the traditional art form designated as a heritage cultural key.
The Academy of Arts of the scene, said that its program will combine theory and practice to prepare students for careers of Opera Cantonese as of the performers, educators or administrators of arts.
Four year degree program is the first of its kind for the art form sung in the Chinese dialect of the South.
The degree would be offered from September 2013, the school said in a statement Monday. According to the request, the Academy may add of graduate degrees.
Interpreter of Opera Cantonese Yuen Siu - fai commended the program, saying that the boat was suffering from a lack of seriousness of talent. While veterans like him have moved their energies of grooming new talent performance, a few skilled artists are in their 20s or 30s.
"My first reaction is that this is a very good thing." It is something of that really, I hope, Yuen told Associated Press in a telephone interview, adding that the success of the program depends on the quality of its teachers and curriculum.
Group of performers of Cantonese Opera which Yuen helps manage, the Chinese Artists Association of Hong Kong, has a school of continuing education for working professionals. Also, the association organises courses in high school and hopes to expand to a second.
Performance sites were also of concern. The lease of theatre on the leader of Hong Kong, the Sunbeam Theatre Cantonese Opera, is due to exhausted in February 2012, although the Hong Kong Government promised performance space in the Western Kowloon projected $ 2.8 billion cultural hub designed by British architect Norman Foster.
Yuen said, however, the solution is not physical, but rather the lack of general respect for the performing arts. He said that he often loses young promising parents who compel them to concentrate on their academic studies in their high school years as they prepare for the admission of the University.
The Hong Kong Government said in a statement, that he is committed to maintaining the interest of the public to the Cantonese Opera. Home Affairs Ministry said it provides spending 30 million Hong Kong dollars ($3.9 million) this fiscal year on the performances, training and research Cantonese Opera.
A separate Opera Cantonese Development Fund has awarded HK 37 million ($4.8 million) since its creation in 2005.
The Ministry of Home Affairs intends to finance Academy of the Performing Arts courses this year but did not say if she would support the program of studies.
Cantonese Opera has been added to the list of heritage cultural key U.N. educational, scientific and Cultural Organization in 2009.
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