Yue Opera - also called the Shaoxing opera - is a newcomer among the Chinese local operas, which is very popular in Guangdong and Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macao and overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia.

History of Yue Opera - It was originated in the beginning of the 1900s near Shanghai in a place called Shaoxing from local musical plays, which used only the ban-clapper in accompaniment of the play. The popularity of this art form began to grow in 1916, when it was performed in Shanghai to large audiences of Shaoxing origin.

Features of Yue Opera - Its singing and dialogue are all in Guangzhou dialect. Based on Banghuang Tune, It combines four regional types of traditional music with Guangdong folk music and popular tunes and its tunes are sweet and beautiful and the performance vivid and full of local color.

Instruments – its instruments consist of Chinese traditional instruments and western instruments. Such as Er Xian, Gao Hu. San Xian, Yue Qin, violin, saxophone, cello and double bass.

Yue opera today - By now, many years of development has made it a most important opera style next to Beijing Opera in China, taking its theme from fairy tales, literary classics and historical stories. The voices of Yue Opera are soft and beautiful, and easy to learn. Different voices from various schools were developed which led to the emergence of large numbers of fans devoted to each school.

Popular plays –Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (known as Butterfly's Love), Dream of the Red Mansion, and Aunt Xianglin are the very famous play. In the last two decades and more, a number of Yue Opera performing troupes with a contingent of outstanding actors and actresses have emerged, as best represented by the rising popularity of the Zhejiang Little Hundred-flower Yue Opera Troupe.