Songs of Xinjiang

A famed soprano returns to her roots with Visitors on the Snow Mountains in an NCPA concert series next week, Chen Nan reports.

Early Thursday afternoon, a group of actors was busy working on the original Chinese opera, Visitors on the Snow Mountains, which will run from Wednesday to Sunday at the National Center for the Per-forming Arts.

In sharp contrast to the feverish NCPA rehearsal scene in the center of the room, soprano Dilber Yunus and composer Lei Lei sat quietly in a corner. With musical scores in hands, the soprano murmured the tunes while following the composer intensively.