[THE WEEKENDER] Petals, mirrors, hair - a voyage to hell and back

After moving back 10 rows following the interval, the vocal elements of the second half of the evening, the one-act opera Gianni Schicchi, were clearly audible. Now I could both see and hear the soloists, neither of which had been possible before. And it was enormously gratifying to discover that Dennis Chung-kuang Lin (林中光) was every bit as convincing in the title role as his predecessor in the Taipei Symphony Orchestra’s production a month earlier had been. Conducted by Yang Chih-Chin (楊智欽), this was, even with virtually no scenery, a very enjoyable experience, and the near-hysterical applause of the large audience, many of them clearly student friends of the young instrumentalists, was well deserved.

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