In 2008 CNOH toured America with 10 performances of the original creation Farewell My Concubine (modern opera). In 1988 CNOH was guest company at the Savonlinna Opera Festival performing Carmen, Madam Butterfly, Verdi's Requiem as well as Chinese-language opera. In 2009, CNOH staged Turandot with Zhang Yimou in the 'Bird's Nest' Beijing National Stadium, and again in the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium in Taiwan.ĬNOH has toured abroad since its conception, first in socialist countries, then in the west. Then in June 2001 came the successful Three Tenors Forbidden City Concert. The company instead performs in larger theatres around China, including the Shanghai Oriental Art Centre, supplies opera singers to television stations and for concert performances, and tours abroad.ĬNOH staged La Boheme in Beijing in 1986 with Luciano Pavarotti and later Turandot in the Forbidden City. The administrative offices, practice rooms and a rehearsal theatre, often referred to as the 'Central National Opera House,' are located at Chaoyangmen Outer Street Dongzhong-jie 115, south-east of Dongsi Shitiao Station in West Beijing, however since the opening of the National Centre for the Performing Arts at Tiananmen Square East, performances at the permanent theatre of the Opera company are rare.

Chinese national peking opera