[Silver Bridge] Volume 4 · Chapter 14 · The Old Lady Watching Peking Opera, the Elderly Couple Listening to Pansori — Two Stages I Met

1. In Chapter 14 of the serial "Silver Bridge," the author recounts the elderly audiences he met at a Peking opera theater in Beijing and on the pansori stage of the National Theater of Korea in Seoul.
2. He reports that in 2024 Chinese Peking opera ranked first with 30% of all drama performances, and that nearly half of the audience at a sold-out changgeuk performance were aged 60 or over.
3. He proposes viewing older generations not as objects to be preserved, but as the agents who translate tradition into today's language, and notes that the details are included in the book.

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