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Mulan heads to Japan

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-10-28 11:26

Leading Chinese soprano Peng Liyuan, president of the Performing Arts Troupe of the PLA's Political Department, will lead the company to perform the Chinese opera Mulan Psalm in Tokyo and Sapporo from Nov 8 to 20. Peng, who premiered the opera in 2004, is the artistic director of the new production.

Soprano Tan Jing and Lei Jia will perform the title role Mulan. Li Yuning, conductor of the Orchestra of the PLA's company, and Shunsaku Tsutsumi, artistic director of Japan's Royal Chamber Orchestra, will take turns to conduct the shows.

Mulan Psalm is based on the well-known Chinese folktale heroine Mulan who disguises herself as a man to take the place of her ailing father in the army.

The opera scored by Chinese composer Guan Xia debuted in 2004 and has toured across China. It has also played abroad, at New York's Lincoln Center in 2005, and at Vienna's National Opera House in 2008.