Penang’s Operatic Past: A Legacy of Passion and Dedication
By Sheryl Teoh
May 2024 FEATURE
IT HAS BEEN two decades since the last big-scale Italian opera was staged in Penang; it is almost unthinkable now to imagine that this quiet little island would have witnessed something so grand. After all, the late Kee Phaik Cheen, whom The Wall Street Journal dubbed the “Godmother of Penang” and who had great love for the state, had griped about it being “a cultural desert” to Fumihiko Konishi, the Founder of the Texchem Group of Companies, but perhaps better...
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- [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109528978095919133
- [2] Texview Newsletter
- [3] The Star, 9 March 2021.
Sheryl Teoh
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Linfield College, a liberal arts college in the United States, and majored in History with a focus on Classical Greece and Rome. Her interests include the study of philosophy as well as a range of humanities and socio-political issues.
