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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.