Dancing to joyful music.	The main performance following the prelude.	Tendar sometimes sings the closing blessing to the audience.

SONOROUS singing at the folklore village across Kalzang Lingka, Lhasa enthralls a crowd of tourists. They sit, transfixed, as native Tibetan farmers perform primordial Tibetan opera onstage.

The Jomolung Farmers' Tibetan Opera Troupe in Naiqung Town, Tohlung Dechen County of Lhasa City, is imbued with a native charm that draws visitors from all over the world. The emcees announce the program in Tibetan, Chinese and English, and the prologue starts! The main parts that follow each have a different theme signified by a different colored mask, tempo and mood of music, such as the white-mask Tashi Xoiba and the blue-mask Padma Obar. Each part ends in a long blessing, followed by a work chant performed by the troupe’s women members.

Among the troupe's beautiful and handsome young performers are several seniors in their seventies that dance and sing as naturally and energetically as their younger fellows, to the accompaniment of the Tibetan guitar. Some are well known, having participated in the National Amateur Artist Performance of Ethnic Minorities in Beijing, Dec 1964. Tendar, who formerly accompanied the famous Tibetan singer Cedai Zholma, is one of them.

This is truly music without frontiers. The troupe’s songs, in addition to telling Tibetan stories, also embody the essential appeal of Tibetan opera.