HONG KONG — With the blond wig and red tie, the star of the Cantonese opera in Hong Kong may look familiar. ADVERTISEMENTThe three-hour opera opens with America’s first family moving into the White House, where Trump’s daughter Ivanka discovers an old suitcase. In the show, Donald Trump goes to China and meets Mao and Zhou En-lai, the first premier of communist China. Audience attentionLi Kui-Ming, a 64-year-old feng shui master turned Cantonese opera playwright, explains that his 34th opera piece does not aim to focus on serious international politics. The opera plays until Monday at Sunbeam Theatre, which is one of the long-established traditional Cantonese opera venues in Hong Kong, created in 1972.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 14, 2019 22:52 UTC