Orphée et Eurydice: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
La Traviata: week 3 - week 2 - week 1
Tea: A Mirror of Soul: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
Madama Butterfly: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1

Tea: A Mirror of Soul - Week Four

Seikyo, baritone Haijing Fu, gathers his fellow monks around him and begins to tell the story of Princess Lan and their search for the Book of Tea.

Princess Lan, soprano Kelly Kaduce, and the Prince, tenor Roger Honeywell, perform a puppet opera for their father the Emperor telling the story of the Monkey King.

Maestro Tan Dun leads the Opera Company of Philadelphia Orchestra through Tea: A Mirror of the Soul and conducts the first two performances of the opera.

When the Prince of Persia arrives offering a thousand horses in exchange for the Book of Tea, the Prince of China, tenor Roger Honeywell, reveals that he is in possession of that book.  He is devastated when Seikyo says that his book is a fraud and that the tea sage Lu Yu has the true Book of Tea.

A look at the trap door hidden on the set.  In Act III of Tea, Princess Lan disappears into it under an enormous piece of flowing red silk.

Soprano Kelly Kaduce, sings the role of Princess Lan, who sacrifices herself “to die for the one [she] loves, by the one who loves.”