Going wild for 'The Wilderness'
China DailyLi Xincao, conductor and president of the China Conservatory of Music, and director Chen Wei at the launch ceremony of the latest stage adaptation of the Chinese opera, The Wilderness, in Beijing on April 21. In 1987, Cao Yu's daughter, dramatist Wan Fang, turned it into a Chinese opera by working with composer Jin Xiang, who was a professor of the China Conservatory of Music. On July 25 of that year, the Chinese opera premiered in Beijing, performed by the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater. Marking the 60th anniversary of the China Conservatory of Music, the school announced the restaging of the Chinese opera with Li Xincao, president of the school, serving as the artistic director and Chen Wei, a professor at the school's opera department, as the director.
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