{"id":474,"date":"2025-11-14T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:11:21","slug":"san-franciso-opera-world-premiere-the-monkey-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"San Franciso Opera World Premiere: The Monkey King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Nov.14-30, Featured pipa artist in the world premiere production of <em>The Monkey King<\/em> at the San Francisco Opera, composed by Huang Ruo with a libretto by David Henry Hwang. This landmark production brought the classic Chinese epic <em>Journey to the West<\/em> to the operatic stage through an innovative fusion of Chinese and Western artistic traditions. My performance contributed to the integration of traditional Chinese instrumental practice within a contemporary operatic framework. The production received widespread critical acclaim, including a Critic&#8217;s Pick review from the New York Times, which highlighted the pipa&#8217;s role in the score and described my performance as \u201cscene-stealing brilliance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><ul class=\"socialwrap size16 row\"><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shenshenzhang.com%2F%3Fp%3D474&amp;t=San+Franciso+Opera+World+Premiere%3A+The+Monkey+King\" title=\"Recommend this post : San Franciso Opera World Premiere: The Monkey King on Facebook\"><span class=\"head\">Recommend on Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shenshenzhang.com%2F%3Fp%3D474\" title=\"Tweet this post : San Franciso Opera World Premiere: The Monkey King on Twitter\"><span class=\"head\">Tweet about it<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"rss\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/?p=474&#038;feed=rss2\" title=\"Follow this post : San Franciso Opera World Premiere: The Monkey King comments\"><span class=\"head\">Subscribe to the comments on this post<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"print\" href=\"javascript:window.print();\" title=\"Print this post : San Franciso Opera World Premiere: The Monkey King for reading later\"><span class=\"head\">Print for later<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"clean\"><\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov.14-30, Featured pipa artist in the world premiere production of The Monkey King at the San Francisco Opera, composed by Huang Ruo with a libretto by David Henry Hwang. This<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/?p=474\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">San Franciso Opera World Premiere: The Monkey King<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shenshenzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}