The Glee Club of the China Central Opera House (COH), whose predecessor was the chorus of the COH's opera troupe, has been active in both operatic and chorus-arts fields since the founding of the Central Experimental Opera House early in the 1950s.

The Glee Club has rehearsed and produced various Chinese operas, including Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang, Liu Hulan, Song of Grassland, Spring Thunder, Clouds Longing for Husband, Ayiguli, Great Wall in the South Sea, Flower-Guard God, the 100th Bride, Army and People March, Marco Polo. Meanwhile, it has also participated in many famous foreign operas, such as La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, Youth Guards, AS Pushkin Eugene Onegin and Carmen. In addition, the club even attached itself to the production of two US melodramas - A Salesman of Musical Instruments and the Whimsicality in 1987. Some of the above-mentioned operas and dramas have received awards from the Ministry of Culture.

In addition to operatic presentations, the Glee Club often takes part in various concerts and full-length theoretical parties, as well as some large-scale classical choruses, including the Yellow River Chorus, Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Verdi's Requiem.

The Glee Club has visited foreign countries with the COH many times and performed the opera Der Zauberfloete in Japan in 1989 and 1992 respectively where it was praised as a "powerful Glee Club" by Japanese review circles.

In 1998, the Glee Club, cooperating with world-famous artists, staged The Masquerade at the Macau Arts Festival; at the beginning of 1999, it presented The Flying Dutchman at the opening ceremony of the Macau Culture Center, both of which achieved great success.