Cambodian Youth Arts Benefit Concert

Last night Cambodian Living Arts hosted a benefit concert for the upcoming festival. The concert featured songs from composer and Royal University of Fine Arts professor Him Sophy's opera, Where Elephants Weep. The opera is based on West Side Story but with a modern Cambodian plot and Cambodian music. The songs were amazing and I wish I had seen the whole production. It premiered two years ago.




I got drafted into bartending at the pre-concert cocktail party: