From 21 June to 26 July 2025, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre (SCCC) and National Arts Council (NAC) co-presented the Chinese Opera Festival (COF) 2025, a joint initiative celebrating one of Singapore’s traditional performing art forms. This inaugural festival featured five local Chinese opera troupes, each representing a different dialect. They comprised Chinese Opera Studio (Teochew), Chinese Opera Ensemble (Hainanese), OperaWorks (Singapore) (Cantonese), Tian Yun Beijing Opera Society (Peking), and Tang Renaissance (Yue). The festival is part of our ongoing efforts to safeguard and promote the traditional art form of Chinese opera, and to provide vital support for local Chinese opera groups in order to develop their capabilities and facilitate their artistic growth.
If you missed a performance at COF 2025, you can watch it as well as other COF performances on Channel 8 on the following dates and time slots:
| Event Title | Date/ Time |
| The Mistake of Justice Bao (Teochew) | Episode Part 1: 28 Nov 2025, 10.30am
Episode Part 2: 5 Dec 2025, 10:30am |
| The Peacocks Flying Southeast (Hainanese) | Episode Part 1: 5 Dec 2025, 11:30am
Episode Part 2: 12 Dec 2025, 10:30am |
| The Betrothal Sword of Love (Cantonese) | Episode Part 1: 19 Dec 2025, 10:30am
Episode Part 2: 26 Dec 2025, 10:30am |
| Mei Yu Pei (Peking) | Episode Part 1: 2 Jan 2026, 10:30am
Episode Part 2: 9 Jan 2026, 10:30am |
| Marshal Lim Bo Seng (Yue) | Episode Part 1: 16 Jan 2026, 10:30am
Episode Part 2: 23 Jan 2026, 10:30am |
Each performance will be telecast over two episodes.
Nov 28, 2025 - Jan 23, 2026
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