Farewell My Concubine (modern opera)

For other uses, including the film, the Peking opera, see Farewell My Concubine.

Farewell My Concubine (Chinese: 歌剧《霸王别姬》, geju "Bawang bie ji") is a Chinese-language Western-style opera composed by choral conductor and composer Xiao Bai (萧白), to a libretto by Wang Jian (王健) for the China National Opera House, which toured the United States in 2008.[1][2]

The opera is unrelated to the soundtrack to Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, which was composed by Zhao Jiping.[3]

References

  1. ^ UCLA China National Opera House Performance: Farewell My Concubine
  2. ^ Washington Post A Chinese Makeover For European Opera "a Chinese story that was transformed into a Western-style opera sung in Mandarin, a task that took former top conductor Xiao Bai more than 18 years to complete"
  3. ^ Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture – Page 1012 Edward L. Davis – 2012 Among his most famous film scores are those for Raise the Red Lantern (1991), To Live (1993) and Farewell My Concubine (1993).
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