AN ARRESTING NEW AMERICAN-AND-CHINESE OPERA
With the SFO’s “Red Chamber” World Premiere By Paul Hertelendy artssf.com, the independent observer of San Francisco Bay Area music and dance Week of Sept. 14-21 , 2016 Vol. 19, No. 2 The new Chinese opera-tragedy “Dream of the Red Chamber” offers high drama after a lengthy, opulent prologue, turning a classic novel into an opera that is closer to a musical feast than to consistent theater. The emigre Chinese composer Bright Sheng has created a rich, listenable score astutely…