The 25th Shoton (Yogurt) Festival, the festival of Tibetan Opera, is underway at the Tibetan Institute for Performing Arts (TIPA) in Dharamshala with the eight participating opera troupes, each performing short extracts of their stories on the first day. The eight troupes are THS, Mussoorie, Poanta, Chaksamapa, USA, Kalimpong, Bhandara, Kollegal, Nepl and TIPA. The festival will conclude on April 13 with each group performing a different Lhamo story.