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...Culture: Nobelist's Defiant Opera...
...course, the Nobel Prize does have its advantages. Thanks to Gao's literary celebrity, the production budget is unusually generous, allowing him 60 actors, a choir and a 70-member orchestra. All that manpower has created an unclassifiable theatrical experience. "It's not a drama, or a Peking opera, or modern dance, or Western opera," says Gao. It's all of the above, an avant-garde East-West fusion that tells the story of Huineng, a seventh-century Buddhist monk whose unnerving autonomy mirrors that of the author...
...Culture: Nobelist's Defiant Opera...
...Culture: Nobelist's Defiant Opera...
...Culture: Nobelist's Defiant Opera...