Heritage

Heritage fans would like to conserve old buildings, swimming pools. cemeteries and other old things with heritage values.

Heritage also includes traditions, customs and culture. So this blog can be considered a heritage blog too.

To preserve Chinese opera in Singapore is not easy.

First, you need people, especially younger ones, to be interested enough to want to learn and perform. Then you need fans and supporters. And you also need financial resources.

If you ask older Cantonese opera fans, I think many will tell you they were exposed to it when they were young. For example, they followed their grandmothers or mothers to the wayang. Nowadays, the young are not in such an environment.

My view is that Chinese opera will not fade away but the circle will get smaller and smaller. Professional foreign troupes will come less and less often because of the high cost of bringing them in and also because of dwindling audience.