Warriors star in lakeside opera spectacular

Replicas of the Terracotta Warriors helped to give Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot a distinctly Chinese flavor at the opening of the Bregenz Festival in Austria on Wednesday.

The performing arts festival is famous for staging large-scale open-air productions on a stage built over the waters of Lake Constance, and the half-submerged figures were a striking sight.

The stage was dominated by a gleaming, rust-colored wall 27 meters high, 72 meters long and weighing 335 metric tons that was inspired by the Great Wall.