NEW YORK—Mr. Huie a retired vocalist, who sang in the opera for about 14 years, enjoyed the Divine Performing Arts Chinese New Year Splendor at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday Jan. 24.
He was very impressed by the Chinese opera singers.
“Marvelous, extremely good, extremely good. I used to sing in the opera, so I know.”
In the show, sopranos and tenors give voice to the deepest values and longings of China’s ancient culture.
“Very colorful, very Chinese … and very entertaining—very entertaining,” Mr. Huie described his impression of the Splendor.
He particularly liked the dignified and tasteful quality of the show.
“It’s different, it’s not the kind of show that you see in Broadway. It’s different. So I think that it has its own selling quality because it’s different and usually with American entertainment we expect a lot of noise, let’s put it this way. I noticed that everyone was well clothed … I loved it.”
The costumes, he said, were “wonderful ... I mean, can’t be beat. Wonderful, beautiful, very, very beautiful, very colorful. I love it.”
‘The colors were really excellent’
Ms. Kalmbach is the director of a women’s workshop, a visual arts workspace studio.
“I thought it was very exciting, the movements superb and the colors were really excellent. I enjoyed it very much,” she said.
“I loved the color of the costumes especially and I really liked it when the dancers came up from the back over the stage in unison, that was really effective I thought.”
The backdrops for the shows include celestial palaces and Mongolian grasslands. They are created digitally and match the costumes and storyline of the act being presented.
Please see DivinePerformingArts.org for more information.
