Farewell My Concubine (Chinese: 歌剧《霸王别姬》, geju "Bawang bie ji") is a Chinese-language Western-style opera composed by choral conductor and composer Xiao Bai (萧白), to a libretto by Wang Jian (王健) for the China National Opera House, which toured the United States in 2008.UCLA China National Opera House Performance: Farewell My ConcubineWashington Post A Chinese Makeover For European Opera "a Chinese story that was transformed into a Western-style opera sung in Mandarin, a task that took former top conductor Xiao Bai more than 18 years to complete"
The opera is unrelated to the soundtrack to Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, which was composed by Zhao Jiping.Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture – Page 1012 Edward L. Davis – 2012 Among his most famous film scores are those for Raise the Red Lantern (1991), To Live (1993) and Farewell My Concubine (1993).
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