{"id":4286,"date":"2020-02-02T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsite.cssingapore.org\/?p=4286"},"modified":"2025-04-29T20:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:06:58","slug":"fences-of-the-heart-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/2020\/02\/02\/fences-of-the-heart-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Fences of the Heart Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#f5f2f0&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px||true|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;fade&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;1em&#8221; header_4_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; header_4_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;1.3em&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; header_4_font_size_tablet=&#8221;1.2em&#8221; header_4_font_size_phone=&#8221;1.1em&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Esplanade Concourse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>22 Feb 2020 (Sa)<\/strong><br \/><strong>6:00 PM \u2013 7:15 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Fences of the Heart Showcase<\/h4>\n<p><strong>ft. Robert Yeo &amp; John Sharpley, performed by Akiko Otao, Jonathan Charles Tay, Siti Maznah &amp; Adam Azali (Singapore)<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>About this Event<\/h4>\n<p>This vocal showcase will be performed by singers Akiko Otao, Jonathan Charles Tay, Siti Maznah and Adam Azali, accompanied by composer John Sharpley (US-born Singapore-based composer) on the piano and librettist Robert Yeo as narrator. The performance will showcase five songs from the newly revised opera <em>Fences of the Heart<\/em> by Yeo and Sharpley. The story is set in the tumultuous 1960s and takes place in London, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. In the midst of upheaval, a Chinese boy from Singapore and a Malay girl from Kuala Lumpur struggle to make their life together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esplanade.com\/festivals-and-series\/cool-classics\/2020\/fences-of-the-heart-showcase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MORE INFO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esplanade Concourse 22 Feb 2020 (Sa)6:00 PM \u2013 7:15 PM Fences of the Heart Showcase ft. Robert Yeo &amp; John Sharpley, performed by Akiko Otao, Jonathan Charles Tay, Siti Maznah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-4286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4291,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions\/4291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}