Toronto Mayoral Candidate: ‘It was a feast for the eyes’

Mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi attended the Shen Yun show on Friday night and had high praise for all the performances.

Rocco Rossi, mayoral candidate for the city of Toronto, and Mrs. Rossi attended the Friday night Shen Yun Performing Arts opening show at Canon Theatre. Allen Zhou/The Epoch Times

TORONTO—Shen Yun Performing Arts returned to Toronto’s Canon Theatre this Friday evening performing to an enthusiastic full house.

Rocco Rossi, one of the front runners of the mayoral race for the city of Toronto, attended the show with his wife. Mr. Rossi had high praise for Shen Yun.

“It was a feast for the eyes,” said Mr. Rossi, who is also former CEO of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and a former national director of the Liberal Party of Canada.

“It was a beautiful and inspiring show full of colour and tragedy, humour and extraordinary performances—the orchestra, the dancers, the singers,” he said.

Mr. Rossi was especially enthusiastic about Handkerchiefs, a vivacious north-eastern folkdance in which graceful young female dancers twirl their colourful handkerchiefs.

“The show with the handkerchiefs was extraordinary,” he said. “It’s really fantastic, really fantastic. I recommend everyone come and see it.”

The Shen Yun soloists impressed him as well. “I thought the singing was first rate, in particular the first tenor,” he said, referring to tenor Tian Ge. “The purity of the voice and the hitting of the notes were really, really wonderful to listen to.”

The Shen Yun orchestra is unique in the way it blends classical western and Chinese instruments.