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...Chinese connection. I wanted to see ? hear, really ? 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...
...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 in the car, and read the rest of this review when you come home...
...remake of a movie for the musical stage. So let's 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...
...Jianli's mother and raised as brothers. When they're 10, they're separated for pursue their different and colliding destinies. In maturity, the warlord (played with a bull-headed majesty by Jiang Wen, China's leading movie actor) hears than Jianli (Ge You, a stalwart of several Zhang Yimou films) is enslaved by a rival clan; he sends one of his lieutenants to defeat the clan and return with Jianli. He needs a theme song, and desperately wants the musician to compose an anthem for him. But Jianli is a stubborn sort, not easily bossed by his childhood friend...
...Year, as your readers did in the online poll. What percentage of people in the world have ever heard of YouTube? What is the scale of its effect on people outside the U.S.? The proper headline for your cover should have been American person of the year. Zac Zhang Shenzhen, China...