Sung in English with English and Chinese supertitles, 'Dream of the Red Chamber' went on from the War Memorial to success at the 2017 Hong Kong Arts Festival and then on a tour of China.
As San Francisco Opera is reprising its 2016 world premiere of"Dream of the Red Chamber," June 14–July 3, Bright Sheng's musical treatment of a classic Chinese novel is produced by a pan-Pacific cast and crew — Taiwanese, Chinese, Chinese Americans, Korean, Singaporean.
The most prominent Redologist was Zhou Ruchang, who spent seven decades studying the work. Initially supported by Mao Tse-tung, who claimed to have read"Red Chamber" five times. Zhou — who died in 2012 at age 94 — ended up in prison during the Cultural Revolution anyway. The playwright was aware of Cao Xueqin’s original novel"by its formidable reputation, but I never read it, not even in translation."
The other most acclaimed Chinese classics are"Romance of the Three Kingdoms," attributed to Luo Guanzhong;"Journey to the West," attributed to Wu Cheng’en; and"Water Margin" or"Outlaws of the Marsh" , attributed to Shi Nai’an or Luo Guanzhong. "Even as a teenager," says Huang,"I was infatuated with this beautifully written, romantic, intriguing, and sad story of unrequited love, especially in sympathy with Dai Yu, the tragic heroine who embodies poetic feminine fragility. This mega-saga needs to have time immersion and maturity for the readers to enter gradually into the lengthy story line with 40 major characters and close to 500 minor ones.
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