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Angel Island transports audiences to 20th-century US detention facility through immigrants’ poems
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Angel Island explores the lives and hardships of more than 170,000 Chinese immigrants in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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SINGAPORE – The lives and hardships of some 175,000 Chinese immigrants in a 20th-century United States immigration facility is the subject of one of Singapore International Festival of Arts 2023’s most anticipated headline acts.
Titled Angel Island, the “opera theatre” by acclaimed composer Huang Ruo and local artist Brian Gothong Tan takes inspiration from more than 200 Chinese poems, carved on the walls of the detention barracks on the eponymous island in San Francisco Bay, California, between 1910 and 1940.
