Name: The Song Poet
Start: 2023-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-03-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Luminary Arts Center

Organization

Stage director

Rick Shiomi

Set designer

Mina Kinukawa

Costume designer

Khamphian Vang

Lighting designer

Karin Olson

Chorus master

Celeste Marie Johnson

Repetiteur

Erica Guo

Minnesota Opera

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The Song Poet

Minneapolis

United States

Luminary Arts Center

The Song Poet Jocelyn Hagen

Public

Approved

Music By Jocelyn Hagen with additional Hmong lyrics set by Bee Yang
Libretto by Kao Kalia Yang

A father’s love, a family’s journey.
The first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as a refugee. With his poetry, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family, polishing their reality so that they might shine. 

Learn more at mnopera.org/song-poet

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A father’s love, a family’s journey.
The first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as a refugee. With his poetry, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family, polishing their reality so that they might shine.

English

The Song Poet by Hagen, J., Noiztik (2023/2023), Zuzendaria Rick Shiomi,, Luminary Arts Center, Minneapolis, United States

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