Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Tan Dun's Met Opera Debut To Be Broadcast On Sirius
Composer Tan Dun to make Met Opera debutBy MARTIN STEINBERG, Associated Press Writer, Tue Dec 19, 5:58 PM ET
He collected folk songs in villages in his native China, then planted rice during the Cultural Revolution. Later, he played music on the streets of New York to buy food.
Now, composer Tan Dun is making his Metropolitan Opera debut.
"The First Emperor," starring Placido Domingo in the title role of a production with a reported cost of up to $3 million, has its world premiere Thursday night — on stage and in cyberspace.
No stranger to success, Tan won an Oscar in 2001 for the music for the martial arts fantasy "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." His other compositions include "The Map," a cello concerto written for Yo-Yo Ma; and the score for the 2002 movie "Hero," with violin solos by Itzhak Perlman...READ MORE:
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