Madrid audiences enjoy colorful spectacle of Wu tradition

MADRID — With its combination of music, dance and drama, a Wu Opera staged by a troupe from Zhejiang province was greeted with enthusiasm by audiences in the Spanish capital of Madrid over the weekend.

Some 2,000 people attended two packed performances presented by the Zhejiang Wu Opera Research Center on Friday and Saturday. Audience members praised the versatility, drama, agile movements, colorful spectacle and poetry of the regional operatic genre, which has been performed for about 500 years.

"I found it very interesting — the combination of music was so unfamiliar, the acrobatics, the gestures and the movements. I thought it was very colorful and unique," Patricia Garcia, a music teacher, said after watching the show on Saturday.