Dream Of The Red Chamber Opera

Dream of the red chamber in 2011 we embarked on a seemingly impossible project to commission a new contemporary opera based on the beloved chinese classic novel dream of the red chamber dream.

Dream of the red chamber opera. On september 10th 2016 the san francisco opera will present the world premiere of a new opera which it commissioned based on dream of the red chamber th. This is a project with all. A scene from dream of the red chamber as depicted in chinese opera at least fourteen cinematic adaptations of the dream of the red chamber have been made including the 1944 film directed by bu wancang the hong kong shaw brothers adaptation starring sylvia chang and brigitte lin and the 1988 film directed by xie tieli 谢铁骊 and zhao yuan 赵元. The latest and one of the most ambitious is bright sheng s dream of the red chamber which was given its world premiere saturday night by san francisco opera.

Singers from china south korea and the us performed the opera in. For a writer who has done everything from mining an operatic. Dream of the red chamber director stan lai and composer bright sheng at the war memorial opera house. Dream of the red chamber is an english language opera in two acts composed by chinese american composer bright sheng with libretto by sheng and david henry hwang based on the classic 18th century chinese novel of the same name by cao xueqin the three hour english language opera had its world premiere on september 10 2016 by the san francisco opera.

Dream of the red chamber is an 18th century novel written by cao zhan that is generally considered to be the greatest novel of chinese literature. Chinese versus european opera along with the european operatic tradition the opera dream of the red chamber is also inspired by other traditional theatrical versions of the story such as those of peking or beijing opera kunqu or shaoxing opera particularly in terms of choreography costumes and set design. Dream of the red chamber one of china s greatest classical novels as famous in china as romeo and juliet is in the west recounts the love triangle between a young nobleman and two very different women.