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Along the Roaring River
My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met
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Artikel-Nr:
9780470056417
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2008
Seiten:
336
Autor:
Hao Jiang Tian
Gewicht:
612 g
Format:
239x166x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Hao Jiang Tian is the first Chinese-born opera singer to achieve a lasting success on world stages. A bass with a voice that is unusually sweet and versatile, he has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera every season since he debuted there in 1991. He performs the major bass roles at the great opera houses around the globe. Recently he and his wife, Martha Liao, have begun to foster new Chinese opera and talent for the world to hear. Now an American citizen, Tian has homes in New York City, Denver (where he used to sing at a piano bar), and Beijing.
Since his 1991 debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Hao Jiang Tian has appeared on the world's greatest stages, more than 300 times at the Met alone. How he got there, how-ever, is a drama of bittersweet humor, mortal danger, heartbreaking tragedy, and inspiring triumph--more passionate and turbulent than even the grandest opera.
Acknowledgments. Foreword. Prelude. PART I: THE BEAST WITH EIGHTY --EIGHT TEETH. Chapter 1: Music Torture. Chapter 2: The Little Emperor of Destruction. Chapter 3: Mama Nature Sings. Chapter 4: So Long, Beijing. Chapter 5: Embracing the Beast. Chapter 6: What Was I Thinking? Chapter 7: Yellow Hair Blues. Chapter 8: My Mother and the White Boned Demon. Chapter 9: A Card Game. Chapter 10: Son of a Gun. Interlude. PART II: BIG OLD YANKEE. Chapter 11: John Peking. Chapter 12: Facing the Music. Chapter 13: Love Conquers All. Chapter 14: Hao Giovanni. Chapter 15: A Night at the Opera. Chapter 16: The Devil in China. Interlude. PART III: FISHING. Chapter 17: Millenium. Chapter 18: Where You Come From. Index.