粤剧艺术博物馆

Three times a day at the Cantonese Opera Art Museum in Guangzhou, staff step away from their posts as a wooden stage rises in the garden and performers walk out in full costume. The guide traces why the museum was built on Enning Road, the street that shaped the art form from the nineteen thirties on and produced stars like Hong Xiannv and Bai Xuexian, and follows the city's decision in twenty twelve to answer the tradition's fading fortunes with a working stage rather than a glass case. It lingers on the six courtyards and lakeside walkways built around that stage before it opened to the public in twenty sixteen.