Arena of Stars is a musical amphitheater located at outdoor theme park of Genting Highlands

Genting Highlands

Genting Highlands otherwise known as Resorts World Genting is the flagship integrated resort developed by Genting Group. It is nestled on a mountain peak within the Titiwangsa Mountains on the border between the states of Pahang and Selangor of Malaysia...

, Pahang

Pahang

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, Malaysia. The hall can accommodate around 6,000 seats. Arena of Stars is the place for (mostly) musical events held at Genting Highlands

Genting Highlands

Genting Highlands otherwise known as Resorts World Genting is the flagship integrated resort developed by Genting Group. It is nestled on a mountain peak within the Titiwangsa Mountains on the border between the states of Pahang and Selangor of Malaysia...

. Singers that had performed in Arena of Stars such as Boyz II Men

Boyz II Men

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, Michael Learns to Rock

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, Cliff Richard

Cliff Richard

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, Guang Liang

Guang Liang

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, Jolin Tsai

Jolin Tsai

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, Olivia Newton-John

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, S.H.E

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, Joey Yung

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, Stefanie Sun

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, Vanness Wu

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, Twins

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, etc.

Systems

This fully roofed amphitheater boasts state-of-the-art lightings and sound systems. Recently Arena of Stars have just upgraded its sound system by using speakers for the amphitheater for the price of USD 3 million. Most of the times, here are five seating categories inside the amphitheater (from the most expensive) which are: white, red, green, yellow and blue The Osmonds.

All of the events in Arena of Stars is managed by Promotion and Publication Department of Genting Highlands Resort.

History

During its initial development, the amphitheater was built without any roof. But due to the severe weather of Genting Highlands

Genting Highlands

Genting Highlands otherwise known as Resorts World Genting is the flagship integrated resort developed by Genting Group. It is nestled on a mountain peak within the Titiwangsa Mountains on the border between the states of Pahang and Selangor of Malaysia...

 at night especially, later on they put on the roof. The first show of the renowned amphitheater is by Sally Yeh

Sally Yeh

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 and George Lam

George Lam

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 in January 1998. Another upgrade that they made recently was due to the Zee Cine Award 2007 show on April 1 2007, they had to upgrade the make-up rooms into the 5-star class of make-up rooms.

In 2002, it was the site of the 3rd IIFA Awards, the premier award show to honor both the artistic and technical excellence of professionals in Bollywood

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