The Manchester Chinese Opera Group is self- funded and rehearses weekly in Chinatown, in the basement of the Kwok Man restaurant. Loret Lee asked me to help out in Manchester in 1985. “ There were not many performers when I came to England in 1977 there was only one Cantonese opera venue, based in London. Ann Law continues to teach the traditional discipline of Chinese opera through “Ann’s Cultural Club” in the New Hong Kong restaurant and the Wai Yin Chinese Women Society in Manchester, as well as elsewhere in Britain. In the 1990s a number of performers expanded away from this group to found the Manchester Chinese Opera Group, which performs very successful annual performances. As well as organising and participating in performance, her group were involved in teaching opera, singing and performance to a number of different groups in and around Manchester.

The first opera group in Manchester was a Cantonese opera group, founded in Chinatown in the 1980s by Ann Law (an opera star from Hong Kong).

Chinese opera singer