By the MOOK Scenic Spots Family Travel Life Network Editorial Team
Taiwan’s most local, most international, and most literary “2014 Tainan Arts Festival” runs from today until June 20, spanning over two months. A total of 59 groups from Taiwan and 10 other countries will present as many as 185 exciting performances of drama, dance, and music across Tainan City.
The 2014 Tainan Arts Festival kicks off in Tainan City today and runs until June 20. (Photo source / Tainan City Government official website)
This year’s Tainan Arts Festival features its first ever musical performance — the all-English epic musical “Return to Zeelandia,” produced locally. Tainan Mayor Lai Qingde said that just as Americans go crazy for baseball and the NBA when the season comes around, people in Tainan go wild for the arts. Everyone wants to catch the various performances on offer, and that’s what makes Tainan special. That’s why the city government is offering the best performances to enrich the lives of residents and add color to the city.
The Tainan City Government Cultural Affairs Bureau stated that “International Classics, Taiwanese Excellence, and City Stages” are the three major themes of this year’s “Tainan Arts Festival.” Linked by literature, it can be described as Taiwan’s “most local, most international, and most literary” arts festival. The “Festival Night” will take place at 18:30 on April 12 at Nanying Green Heart, where the “West Side Story Film Symphony Concert” will grandly inaugurate the “International Classics” section of the 2014 Tainan Arts Festival.
In the “International Classics” section, a series of internationally acclaimed performances will be presented, including the collaboration between world-renowned Japanese music maestro Joe Hisaishi and outstanding musicians from Europe and Asia in “Joe Hisaishi and the Vienna State Opera Choir,” the original cast of the hit movie “Les Choristes” — the “French Saint-Marc Children’s Choir,” the British A Cappella group that has captivated audiences for 40 years — “The King's Singers Yi Zai Jin Cheng Concert,” a classic revival of timeless elegance — “Gábor Takács and the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra,” family-friendly “Magic Piano and Chopin Shorts,” TIPC Percussion Show and Renato Martins Trio, TIPC World Rising Percussion Artists Series, as well as performances by century dance masters such as Mark Morris’s “Mozart” and “Bartók, Weber & Hummel.” Each show promises to be spectacular. For detailed performance information, please visit the official website of the “2014 Tainan Arts Festival.”
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