2, The Great Wall, and Huang Anlun's Capriccio Xu Beihong, will also feature at the Fifth China Now Music Festival. Other operas adapted from Chinese works, including author Lao She's Rickshaw Boy, Chinese composer Ye Xiaozun's Symphony No.
“We want to create a platform for Chinese music in the West,” Cai told Yicai Global, looking back at the five years of the China Now Music Festival in New York. He was a professor of music performance and orchestra conductor at Stanford University. 7 to 22, the festival is jointly organized by the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and China's Central Conservatory of Music with the aim of making contemporary Chinese music better known to the American public through concerts and other events.Ĭai studied in the United States in the 1980s and is one of the most active Chinese conductors in the country, as well as a writer and music educator. Painted Skin was one of the most-anticipated new works at the Fifth China Now Music Festival. Scene from a Peking opera dramatic performance. It was composed by Hao Weiya, conducted by 66-year-old Cai Jindong, and directed by Michael Hoffman. 15.įusing Western and Peking opera styles into a unique experience, the opera recast the original story as a contemporary American tale, with two US performers singing in Chinese.
17 - Painted Skin, a chamber opera based on a ghost story written by acclaimed Chinese author Pu Songling during the Qing Dynasty, met with a rapturous reception at its US premiere this weekend.Ī big round of applause went up as the curtain came down at the end of the opera, which was adapted from a tale originally published in Pu’s Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio, at the Hudson Opera House in New York on the evening of Oct.
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