The teaching of this course will focus on the historical context of operas and explain the dramas and playlets from the pre-Qin period to the Tang Dynasty, scripts of southern operas in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, northern drama music and poetic dramas in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, southern poetic dramas in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Romaunts in the Ming and Qing Dynasties to “opera highlights” in modern times. The course covers the whole development history of operas. In addition, the most representative repertoires (such as The Palace of Eternal Life and The Opera Sage Wei Liangfu) in the past dynasties are selected as the appreciation objects for opera evaluation.