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发帖数: 7349 | 1 Librettist David Henry Hwang’s answer is you cannot. The Chinese-American
playwright, best known for his Tony Award winning “M. Butterfly”, turned
down the project at first. Bright Sheng, the project’s composer, won him
over, and they created a plot that focused on the love triangle between
Baoyu, Daiyu and Baochai.
They sought a heartfelt tragedy with universal appeal, and gave the novel’s
narrative some modern tweaks. Ann Waltner, a history professor at the
University of Minnesota who teaches a course about the “Dream of the Red
Chamber”, describes it as a reframing of Chinese traditions to fit global
modern life. (The opera got its start in Minnesota, with funding from a
Chinese heritage foundation in the city.) | m**c
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