Highlights included appearances by Li Peihong, the dean of the Shanghai Theatre Academy’s College of Traditional Chinese Opera, in the pieces known as “Separation of the Newly-married” and “The Dream of a Girl,” and by Professor Yuan Yingming of J. F. Oberlin University’s College of Performing and Visual Arts, in a section of “Farewell, My Concubine.”

The performance was organized by the headquarters of the Confucius Institute to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the signing of the Japan-China Treaty of Peace and Friendship. Similar performances will be held in Osaka, Kyoto and Oita Prefecture.