As Chinese cities compete to build the world’s next iconic opera house, here is TWOC’s Top 5
“Every city in China wants to be seen as modern and cultured, and an opera house is considered the best way to project that image,” The New York Times noted back in 1999, accurately predicting the competition among provincial officials to build outlandish opera house over the next two decades. By 2013, there were an estimated 50 in first, second, and even third-tier cities, most constructed to international standards.
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