Kudos - to Prem International School, for the ‘Mad about Mozart’ concert on 14 February, performed by Grand Opera (Thailand)

This was the sweetest of treats – light opera favourites sung by dedicated performers with no microphone, just pure, bone-thrilling beautiful vocal sounds, which earned them all a standing ovation at the end of the performance - deservedly so.

Those of us near the front shared the rare experience of seeing and hearing professional opera singers just a few metres away, feeling the resonance of their unamplified voices, watching their intense facial expressions, sensing the total dedication to their career.

Wonderful, really. At a time when most of what we hear in Chiang Mai is inane computerised ‘doom-doom’ bass beats, which penetrate walls, and travel for miles, this intimate concert provided solace, and hope for much more of the same here in our 'cultural capital'

Congratulations and thanks to Stefan Sanchez, CEO and founder of Grand Opera, equally to his talented artists, and hats off to Prem School for organising for a show to remember.

Chapeau.

This sounds so nice.

any chance of such events being posted on this site in future?

On a slightly different matter, we seem to miss out entirely on the British Council film program, ditto the French and if the USA have an equivalent, that too.

We used to get these in different cities in Indonesia, so why not Thailand?