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...when the Florence Opera House asked Zhang to direct an opera, he was both perplexed by the invitation and, frankly, ignorant of the medium. He discussed the commission with Zhao; all he knew was that the opera was something about a princess. As Zhang told Asia Source in 2004, Zhao "was excited and said that it might be Turandot, a very famous opera and the story was set in China. He talked a lot about Puccini and other basic knowledge of opera.... He found a videotape of Turandot for me. It was a version released by the New York Metropolitan...
...PEKING OPERA BLUES...
...Need a further further? This movie-tinged opera is playing today on more than 100 movie screens in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. At 1:30 p.m. New York time, the Met's matinee will be beamed by satellite live to theaters equipped to present high-definition downloads, with HD sound. Introducing the event from the Met staircase will be Zhang Ziyi, the Crouching Tiger star who was discovered by Zhang Yimou. Come on, all you opera lovers who read my movvie reviews (and the one or two movie lovers), give it a try. Drop everything, jump...
...under the direction of Peter Gelb, seems to have gone movie-mad this season. Movie-director mad, anyway. Zeffirelli, the opera and film visionary, has four productions on the season's schedule: La Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata and Turandot. Julie Taymor ? best known for her Lion King on Broadway but also director of the films Titus, Frida and the forthcoming Beatles pastiche Across the Universe ? has condensed her zazzy Zauberflote, which premiered at the Met in 2004, into a 100min., kid-friendly Magic Flute. And Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain, the current Breaking and Entering) did a rapturously...
...before the budding composer left China to study at Columbia University and devise his own musical entente between China and the West? for what was probably the Met's 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...