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Sichuan Opera Show

Chengdu Sichuan Opera Face Changing Show and Ticket Booking

Sichuan Opera House Seat Map

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Price: From CNY120 / PP

Availability: Everyday

Opera Show at : 20:00-21:30

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Booking Guide

  • Please read the layout map of different classes of seats, the higher price of seats will have better spectacle of the opera show.
  • Any group that is over 12 people (include 12) can have a 5% discount.
  • A full payment is needed to secure the spots. After we receive your payment, we will make the bookings and advise on location/ticket collecting, etc.
  • We only accept payment in CNY unless you are also using our other services. Available methods of payment: WeChat, Alipay or Cash;
  • We are not a third party. We arrange tickets directly by the opera house;
  • You can also request us to collect the tickets for you in person when you are not sure of how or if you are a big group.

Price List

Ticket Class List Price Our Discounted Price
Type VIP Ticket

CNY 260

CNY 220

Type A Ticket

CNY200

CNY160

Type B Ticket

CNY 160

CNY120

Type C Ticket

CNY 160

CNY120

Online Booking Form

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Sichuan Face-Changing Opera Show

Sichuan opera show is considered one of the features of the city of Chengdu. It features the face-changing and fire-spitting tricks, has won its popularity and fame across China. If anyone is to visit Chengdu, to watch this face-changing opera is a very good choice to spend your evening time in Chengdu. Sichuan Opera is a one-thousand-year Shu Culture and a hundred-year long folk art.

Where to watch Sichuan Opera show?

It is located on the traditional Qintai Road (Qintai Lu) in central Chengdu. While on the Qingtai Road, you need to make a turn by the gate of the Culture Park. The house is located inside the park (Culture Park, Wenhua Gongyuan). The opera house is called Shufeng Yayun

When does Sichuan Opera show start?

It has a show every evening starts by 8:00 pm. The show usually lasts for about 80 minutes. Normally you are suggested to arrive there early for example by 7:30 pm.

What is Sichuan Opera show about?

Naotai is the penning of Sichuan Opera. The assembles of gong, drum, chime produce a simple tune as a start of Sichuan Opera by blowing, pulling, plucking and beating.

Puppet Show is a silent show of a puppet without singers or players. The performer use only his pair of clever hands to control the puppet to make different and sometimes difficult movements resembling a real person playing in a show and trying to tell a story usually about love.

Hand Shadow Trick is when the performer from the shapes of different animals like rabbits and horse by a pair of hands.

Rolling Light is a local Sichuan Drama that is famous among local people. It tells a story between a gambling-addicted husband and an aggressive wife. Rolling light is the way the wife uses to punish her husband in the yard. It is a deep-root cultural fact in Chengdu when we say a “Soft-ear” husband is usually afraid of his wife and listens and does what his wife says.

Face-changing and Fire-spitting is the highlight of the opera show. It comes by the end of Sichuan opera how. You will need to watch closely to find out how did the actors changing their masks.


Fire Spitting


Face Changing


Dressing up Opera Costume


Our staff dropping off Tickets

Tips

1. The address of the opera house is 132 Qintai Lu, Qingyang District, Chengdu. It is inside a park.

2. Normally an early booking is better to secure good seats (middle, front) in different types of tickets section, especially during Chinese holidays and on weekends. If you book the tickets on a short notice, the tickets may be sold out or if there are still seats left, but these may not be good seats. You are recommended to make the booking at least 3 days prior to ensure there are still tickets left. Sometimes the opera house opens another show at 6 pm when the 8 pm show tickets sold out. Please make arrangement accordingly.

3. The opera house arranges the seats in accordance with the time of booking. If you book early that means you will probably have good seats in each specific type of tickets (middle/front). We can not choose specific seats.

4. Pick up service (need extra fee) is available.

5. You are recommended to arrive there by 19:45. (or 17:45 for the 6pm show)

6. VIP tickets can choose 1 from the 3 available local experience provided by the opera house: a. ear-cleaning; b.massage; c. dress up a simple opera costume. Each activity takes about 10 to 20 minutes and is available 20 - 30 minutes prior to the opera.

7. Putting on opera makeup is also available 2–3 hours prior to the opera, but this will require an extra fee of about CNY350 to CNY450 PP.

8. All types of tickets will provide a free cup of tea. Snacks/beers are also available but need to pay by yourself.

9. There is no dressing code of the opera show. Taking photos are also allowed.