BERGAMO, Italy—Leonardo Soloperto, a knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, and Julia Bongiorno, a former parliament employee, watched Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Teatro Donizetti on April 5.
“It’s thrilling!” said Mr. Soloperto. “Especially for someone like me who read fantasy books or watched the movie of the Three Kingdoms. So practically, this is the transposition of what one imagines, and here you see it [on stage].”
“I liked it very much,” said Ms. Bongiorno. “The beautiful costumes, the music, the dancers are [all] very good. Truly spectacular.”
Based in New York, Shen Yun was founded in 2006 and is now the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. With eight equally sized companies touring the world simultaneously, Shen Yun’s mission is to revive traditional Chinese culture….