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Tan Dun's (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) Ghost Opera is inspired by childhood memories of the shamanistic 'ghost operas' of Chinese peasant culture. In this 4000-year-old tradition, humans and spirits of the future, the past, and nature communicate with each other. The work employs elements from the European classical concert tradition, Chinese shadow puppet theatre, visual art installations, folk music theatre and ritual. Ghost Opera is written for string quartet and pipa with paper, shadow, and water gong basins placed around the performing space. The performers' movements reflect the back-and-forth between spiritual realms that is characteristic of the 'ghostopera' tradition.

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Music: Tan Dun

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Archive listings for Ghost Opera (2009)

Work type: Opera or Operetta.

and Tribe Among Mountains - T01623488305

Plus the world-premiere of a new work by one of China’s leading contemporary composers and experts in electronic music Yuanlin Chen, who also programmed music for Dun’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero films. Yuanlin Chen’s Tribe Among Mountains commissioned by the BarbicanMusic Yuanlin Chen (Yuanlin Chen (Tribe Among Mountains). Company Kronos Quartet. Performer Wu Man.

10 May 09

Barbican Centre, West End :: V371
listing details L01160696327

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