Part One of the The Desmond Allen Interviews looking at the life of veteran journalist, broadcaster, and playwright Barbara Gloudon, first published in the Jamaica Observer on May .
GEORGE TOWN: Malaysia has yet another academic feather on her cap with Penangite Dr Cheah Phaik Yeong (pic) conferred the title of Professor of Global Health at University of Oxford.
Facing torture, a servant girl turns her eyes to the heavens and sings of love.
Her soprano voice swirls high and fills the room as she declares her resolve of unrequited devotion to a prince in disguise.
After her heart-wrenching aria, there is a moment of stunned silence before the audience erupts in applause.
Such was a scene from Puccini’s
Turandot staged at Penang’s Dewan Sri Pinang in 2003.
The opera, followed by
Carmen that was staged the year after, was among the last large-scale performances by the Penang Arts Council (PAC) that brought numerous operas and operettas to Penang.