A scene from Dream of the Red Chamber at San Francisco Opera Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera
Sunday 17 June at 6.00pm on RNZ Concert
San Francisco Opera Season
BRIGHT SHENG: Dream of the Red Chamber
One of China’s greatest classical novels, as famous in China as ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is in the West, recounts the love triangle between a young nobleman and two very different women: one his spiritual soulmate, the other a beautiful heiress
Bao Yu......................... Yijie Shi
Dai Yu......................... Purem Jo
Bao Chai...................... Irene Roberts
Lady Wang.................. Hyona Kim
Princess Jia.................. Karen Chia-Ling Ho
Granny Jia................... Qiulin Zhang
Aunt Xue..................... Yanyu Guo
The Monk/Dreamer..... Randall Nakano
Lady-in-waiting.......... Amina Edris
Eunuch......................... Pene Pati
San Francisco Opera Chorus and Orchestra/George Manahan (WFMT)
A scene from Dream of the Red Chamber at San Francisco Opera Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera
Synopsis of Dream of the Red Chamber
A scene from Dream of the Red Chamber at San Francisco Opera Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera
