“The music, the dance, the history behind it—it was beautiful, even without the story, and the story just added to it.”

“The soprano soloist, she had a lovely voice, and it was nice to have something wasn’t Western opera. She had a clear, straight voice as opposed to the trained operatic vibrato. I don’t know how she got her voice there, but normally there is a lot of vibrato, which is also beautiful—it’s just nice to have a completely different style.”