A rascally superhero born from a stone egg, the Monkey King is beloved in Chinese mythology, appearing in everything from a 16th century epic to modern comics, animated movies and video games—even in poetry by Mao Zedong.
La Traviata with AAPI leads points to the future
If, 100 years from now, someone were to write an opera about the era of COVID-19, it might look something like Verdi’s La Traviata, which opened on May 6 at the Seattle Opera’s McCaw Hall.
“Tacoma Method”: An opera for the past, present, and future
“Tacoma Method” refers to the forceful expulsion of Tacoma’s entire Chinese population, stemming from an anti-Chinese riot that started in the city on Nov. 3, 1885.
Death comes for the heroine—again — Stunning opera blazons paradox for abused women
How do you survive abuse? Domestic? Cultural? Geopolitical? Gender?
Ghost stories — Books that will make you enjoy being scared
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Deadly Love By Wesley Robert Lowe Wesley Lowe Media, 2014 Five years ago, 20-year-old actress Jasmine Huang died in Beijing. She had asked her […]
Seattle Opera: An artistic marriage between East and West, part 2 of 2
Opera is changing in China and the Seattle Opera is helping contribute to its future …
Blog: The Korean community on cloud nine
Historically, Chinese and Japanese Americans have dominated the spotlight in performances. At the Celebrate Asia! concert, however, it was a Korean opera singer
The carillon carries on: continuing a century-old School of Music tradition
It’s the sound of the carillon, a beloved campus feature dating back nearly a century, in one form or another. The chimes each hour are preprogrammed, but if you hear other tunes emanating from Denny — perhaps as you pass on a foggy morning with coffee in hand — that’s the work of Gabriel Manalac, a graduate student in music who was born in the Philippines.
Young baritone the only Asian to advance to regional opera auditions
Apart from opera singing, what does Yu Seok Oh, a 30-year-old, Korean-born baritone based in Shoreline, have in common with renowned opera singers Renée Fleming, Ben Heppner, and Hei-Kyung Hong?
Nov. 27: Kuan and Yan act as PNB guest conductors
Carolyn Kuan, former associate conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and Judith Yan, music director/principal conductor of Opera on the Avalon in Canada, were two of four guest conductors for the performances of the Stowell/Sendak version of “The Nutcracker” by the Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB).