Poet Li Bai

Poet Li Bai (Chinese: 《诗人李白》) is a Chinese-language chamber opera by Guo Wenjing to a libretto by Diana Liao (廖端丽) and Xu Ying (徐瑛) on the subject of the poet Li Bai.^[1] It was premiered, with subtitles, 7 July 2007 at the Central City Opera House, Central City, Colorado, directed by Lin Zhaohua, conducted by Ed Spanjaard, and produced by Martha Liao.^[2]

References

1. ↑ Opera Volume 59 Page 38 2008 "China Shanghai - Guo Wenjing is the leading Chinese opera composer of his generation still based in his native country, and perhaps anywhere in the world. His new chamber opera. Poet Li Bai, is set to a unique libretto, though its treatment is.. The librettists Diana Liao and Xu Ying include subtle, but only fragmentary allusions to Li Bai's most famous poems, which ... in a manner at once more rigorous and more nuanced than his more celebrated 1978 Beijing classmate, Tan Dun."
2. ↑ http://www.poetlibai.org/Poet_Li_Bai/Home.html