Tan Dun's TEA: A MIRROR OF SOUL Comes to Philadelphia 10-20-2009 © 2008 Ken Howard/Santa Fe Opera “Perhaps since Puccini and Bernstein there has been no one to write such grateful lines for singers,”- Opera magazine View an excerpt from the Santa Fe Opera Tea production! Composer Tan DunPhotos by Nana Watanabe This February, the Opera Company of Philadelphia brings its third East Coast Premiere in four years: Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of Soul, which combines Asian motifs with Western lyricism to create spectacular landscapes of sound. Winner of both a Grammy and an Oscar for his soundtrack to the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tan Dun also won this year’s prestigious Grawemeyer Award for classical composition and Musical America's Composer of The Year. His music has been played hroughout the world by the leading orchestras, opera houses, international festivals, and on radio and television, including a commission by the International Olympic Committee to write the Logo Music and Award Ceremony Music for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. In the third of Tan Dun’s four operas, audiences enter into a world where basic elements like water and wind meet the exotic, creating a mesmerizing tale of a noble quest for the ancient Book of Tea. The work, which had its World Premiere in 2002 in Tokyo, made its American Premiere at the Santa Fe Opera Festival in 2007 in a production which received audience and critical acclaim. The Santa Fe Opera creative team, featuring director Amon Miyamoto, scenic designer Rumi Matsui and costume designer Masatomo Ota, brings this breathtaking production to Philadelphia for its much-anticipated East Coast Premiere. Tan Dun conducts the opening weekend performances. Photos © 2008 Ken Howard/Santa Fe Opera Click here for more information on Tea: A Mirror of Soul. Listen to Music Clips. Read the New York Times' In-Depth Story on Tan Dun View clips of Tan Dun and his work on YouTube: Beijing 2008 Olympic Victory Ceremony Music Composed by Tan Dun Tan Dun's Water Concerto Behind the scenes during recording for the soundtrack of The Banquet, with Tan Dun and Lang Lang: Part One and Part Two Tan Dun's soundtrack for the motion picture Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Interview with Tan Dun on the YouTube Symphony Project
© 2008 Ken Howard/Santa Fe Opera
“Perhaps since Puccini and Bernstein there has been no one to write such grateful lines for singers,”- Opera magazine
View an excerpt from the Santa Fe Opera Tea production!
Composer Tan DunPhotos by Nana Watanabe
This February, the Opera Company of Philadelphia brings its third East Coast Premiere in four years: Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of Soul, which combines Asian motifs with Western lyricism to create spectacular landscapes of sound. Winner of both a Grammy and an Oscar for his soundtrack to the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tan Dun also won this year’s prestigious Grawemeyer Award for classical composition and Musical America's Composer of The Year. His music has been played hroughout the world by the leading orchestras, opera houses, international festivals, and on radio and television, including a commission by the International Olympic Committee to write the Logo Music and Award Ceremony Music for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
In the third of Tan Dun’s four operas, audiences enter into a world where basic elements like water and wind meet the exotic, creating a mesmerizing tale of a noble quest for the ancient Book of Tea. The work, which had its World Premiere in 2002 in Tokyo, made its American Premiere at the Santa Fe Opera Festival in 2007 in a production which received audience and critical acclaim. The Santa Fe Opera creative team, featuring director Amon Miyamoto, scenic designer Rumi Matsui and costume designer Masatomo Ota, brings this breathtaking production to Philadelphia for its much-anticipated East Coast Premiere. Tan Dun conducts the opening weekend performances.
Photos © 2008 Ken Howard/Santa Fe Opera
Click here for more information on Tea: A Mirror of Soul.
Listen to Music Clips.
Read the New York Times' In-Depth Story on Tan Dun
View clips of Tan Dun and his work on YouTube:
Beijing 2008 Olympic Victory Ceremony Music Composed by Tan Dun
Tan Dun's Water Concerto
Behind the scenes during recording for the soundtrack of The Banquet, with Tan Dun and Lang Lang: Part One and Part Two
Tan Dun's soundtrack for the motion picture Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Interview with Tan Dun on the YouTube Symphony Project
