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

Organization

Mise en scène

Rick Shiomi

Décors

Mina Kinukawa

Costumes

Khamphian Vang

Lumières

Karin Olson

Direction de choeur

Celeste Marie Johnson

Répétiteur

Erica Guo

Minnesota Opera

anglais

The Song Poet

Minneapolis

États-Unis

Luminary Arts Center

The Song Poet Jocelyn Hagen

Public

Valide

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. 

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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., Du (2023/2023), Dirigé par Rick Shiomi,, Luminary Arts Center, Minneapolis, États-Unis

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