Word: heros
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...what Tan Dun, the gifted composer who had won an Oscar for his scoring of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, would do with his epic subject. I also was eager to see the production, since it was to be staged by Zhang Yimou, director of many sublime Chinese dramas, including Hero, the worldwide martial arts hit for which Tan Dun had supplied the music. Further, the costumes are by Emi Wada, who worked with Zhang on Hero and House of Flying Daggers. And even further, the opera is based on a 1996 Chinese movie, The Emperor's Shadow...
...most eagerly anticipated original production of the new millennium. Tan Dun's alchemic mixture of influences might produce an opera to span the globe: real world music. The Met promised the largest production since its War and Peace, suggesting that Zhang would take the visual splendor of Hero and House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower and duplicate it, expand and perfect it, on the giant stage. Might we also have some swordplay and wire work...
...talk first about The Emperor's Shadow. It dramatizes an episode in the legend of the warlord who united the disparate Chinese tribes in 310 B.C. and ordered the erection of what would become the Great Wall. (Zhang told another fable of the first Emperor in Hero.) His name has a dozen transliterations, but we'll settle for the Met's spelling, Qin Shi Huangdi ? and, from now on, call him the warlord...
...vague generality under fire, take the typical example, “Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert has already taken his position...
...rest of the world, he is revered, loved and considered one of the greatest soccer players of his generation. You also incorrectly assumed that this caused headaches for the French, which is anything but true. The people of France still think him a hero...