The basement restaurant area of the War Memorial Opera House was all but empty on Monday afternoon, save for a couple of staff members standing at the bar. They weren't drinking but, rather, staring ...

It was toward the end of the first act of the world premiere of "The Bonesetter's Daughter" when mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao, playing the lead, fell briefly onstage during the San Francisco Opera ...

Dressed in hanfu and adorned in delicate makeup, Zheng Xiaohui, a Chinese student in Milan, Italy, has been conducting street performances playing the erhu, a traditional two-stringed bowed instrument ...