This week’s broadcast features Bright Sheng’s 2016 opera Dream of the Red Chamber, based on an 18th century Chinese novel of the same name. This performance features Yijie Shi (Bao Yu), Purem Jo (Dai Yu), Irene Roberts (Bao Chai), Hyona Kim (Lady Wang), Karen Chia-Ling Ho (Princess Jia), Qiulin Zhang (Granny Jia), Yanyu Guo (Aunt Xue), Randall Nakano (The Monk), Amina Edris (Flowers and Handmaidens), Toni Marie Palmertree Flowers and Handmaidens), Zanda Svede (Flowers and Handmaidens), Pene Pati (Stones and Eunuchs), Alex Boyer (Stones and Eunuchs), and Edward Nelson (Stones and Eunuchs). George Manahan conducts.
Dream of the Red Chamber (Sheng)
Pureum Jo as Dai Yu in San Francisco Opera's production of Dream of the Red Chamber (Photo: Cory Weaver)
