Taipei, Aug. 2 (CNA) "Don Carlo," a five-act grand opera by renowned Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, will have its Taiwan premiere at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) in October, according to organizers.
On a warm evening this past January, a crowd gathered outside the Weiwuying Opera House in Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s second largest city, more than an hour before the night’s performance was scheduled to begin. As they waited to enter the theater, people explored an opera-themed bazaar set up underneath the towering canopies stretched between the wings of the sprawling performing