San Francisco Opera - Dream of the Red Chamber Reviews
29 March 2024
Pureum Jo (Dai Yu)
General scene
Karen Chia-Ling Ho (Princess Jia), Qiulin Zhang (Granny Jia), Hyona Kim (Lady Wang)
Yijie Shi (Bao Yu), Dancer
Pureum Jo (Dai Yu), Yijie Shi (Bao Yu)

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Dream of the Red Chamber

San Francisco Opera


No. of reviews: 13

Touching dream receives radiant debut production
6 Oct 16 / Classical Voice North America
There were lots and lots of songs - it is a very long opera
23 Sep 16 / Opera Today
‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ and ‘Andrea Chénier’: opera opts for old over new
21 Sep 16 / Wall Street Journal
Slow start, big finish for Bright Sheng world premiere
17 Sep 16 / Seen and Heard
“The Dream of the Red Chamber” transforms into a fascinating opera
17 Sep 16 / Opera Warhorses
Transforming Dream of the Red Chamber into an opera seems at once impossible and necessary
16 Sep 16 / Opera News
How to transform a classic, sprawling Chinese novel into an opera
15 Sep 16 / The Economist
Dreaming big, Red Chamber collaborators rise to the challenge
13 Sep 16 / San Francisco Classical Voice
Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve
13 Sep 16 / Los Angeles Times
A Dream doesn't quite come true at San Francisco Opera
13 Sep 16 / Bachtrack
S.F. Opera premieres enchanting “Dream of the Red Chamber”
12 Sep 16 / Mercury News
Uneven ‘Red Chamber’ premiere takes wing after intermission
12 Sep 16 / San Francisco Chronicle
SF Opera bridges East-West divide in lush ‘Dream’
12 Sep 16 / San Francisco Examiner
Dream of the Red Chamber: a Chinese epic bursts into song
The book is China’s equivalent of War and Peace, and now it’s been turned into an opera. Is this the 21st-century Turandot – or something more authentic?
Chinese epic gets grand opera treatment
San Francisco Opera faces a seemingly daunting challenge with its world premiere of composer Bright Sheng and co-librettist David Henry Hwang’s “Dream of the Red Chamber.”
Dream of the Red Chamber awakens at San Francisco Opera
A contemporary opera based on the classic Chinese novel, Dream of the Red Chamber, and developed for Western audiences, could be a riveting success at San Francisco Opera this fall.
Production details
Cast
Jo, Shi, Roberts, Zhang, Kim, Ho, Guo
(c) Manahan (d) Lai
Performance dates
10, 13, 18(m), 23, 27, 29 September 2016
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