The Peony Pavilion (opera)

The Peony Pavilion is a 1998 production by Peter Sellars, in a mix of Chinese and English translation, of the Ming Dynasty play The Peony Pavilion.

Part One is an avant-garde staging of the traditional Kunqu form of Chinese opera's staging of the play, which is how the play is usually performed in China. Part Two is a specially-composed two-hour opera by Tan Dun, mixing Chinese and western forms and instruments.^[1]^[2]

Recordings

Sony Classics released a 1998 CD, Bitter Love: A Song Cycle sung in English by Ying Huang and the New York Virtuoso Singers based on portions of the score for Part Two.^[3]

References

^ The Poetics of Difference and Displacement Page 134 Min Tian - 2008 "The main component of Part Two of Sellars's Peony Pavilion is Tan Dun's composition of a two-hour opera. Tan's music exemplifies the simultaneity, diversity, and heterogeneity of postmodern culture, which "has absolutely no cultural ...""
^ The Rough Guide to Opera Matthew Boyden, Nick Kimberley, Joe Staines - 2002 "Few composers embrace the implications of a global musical culture as wholeheartedly as Tan Dun, born in China but ... The second, Peony Pavilion (1998), a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, tells an ancient Shanghai opera love story .."
^ Tang Xianzu Mudan Ting introduction Page 30, translation by Cyril Birch 2002 "... hours to Chen Shi-Zheng's production and another hour to the making of it; Sony has released a CD, Bitter Love: A Song Cycle (based on the opera Peony Pavilion), that features Ying Huang singing portions of Tan Dun's score for Part Two."

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[1] The Poetics of Difference and Displacement Page 134 Min Tian - 2008 "The main component of Part Two of Sellars's Peony Pavilion is Tan Dun's composition of a two-hour opera. Tan's music exemplifies the simultaneity, diversity, and heterogeneity of postmodern culture, which "has absolutely no cultural ...""

[2] The Rough Guide to Opera Matthew Boyden, Nick Kimberley, Joe Staines - 2002 "Few composers embrace the implications of a global musical culture as wholeheartedly as Tan Dun, born in China but ... The second, Peony Pavilion (1998), a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, tells an ancient Shanghai opera love story .."

[3] Tang Xianzu Mudan Ting introduction Page 30, translation by Cyril Birch 2002 "... hours to Chen Shi-Zheng's production and another hour to the making of it; Sony has released a CD, Bitter Love: A Song Cycle (based on the opera Peony Pavilion), that features Ying Huang singing portions of Tan Dun's score for Part Two."

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