Zhang Yimou is at it again, staging Puccini’s final opera “Turandot” to fill the Birds’ Nest for an October 6 show commemorating — what else — the PRC’s 60th anniversary as a state.
Just in case you though that Italian opera was making the CCP soft, Shanghai Daily reports the cultural news below a photo of a paramilitary cop forcing a “terrorist” out of a car.
Apparently they didn’t want to stage Tan Dun’s “First Emperor,” the Met’s recent staging about the tyrannical Qin Shihuangdi.
Shanghai Daily
08 Sep 2009
FAMOUS opera “ Turandot” will be staged at the National Stadium, or Bird’s Nest, on October 6 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of People’s Republic of China under the direction of Zhang Yimou, the director of last year’s Beijing…read more…
Adam Cathcart 