“…Tan Dun is a kind of rock star of the modern music scene. He won an Oscar for the score of Ang Lee’s film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” His latest opera, ‘The First Emperor’, starring Plácido Domingo, had its premiere at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 2006 and will be revived there this week…”

By Ian Buruma
Source: New York Times

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