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Bright Sheng's newest album will be released by Naxos on February 12th. 2021, celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year! It's now available for order at iTunes. (Cover art by Fayfay Sophie Sheng in 2017)

This new album feathers Sheng's most recent violin conerto LET FLY, and ZODIAC TALES, a concerto for Orchestra, as well as his new orchestral work SUZHOU OVERTURE. This is a collabration with Shanghai Symphony and Suzhou Symphony, conducted by Bright Sheng himself, with Dan Zhu as the violin soloist, one of the finest and busiest in the world.

All-Asian cast revives ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ at San Francisco Opera

Soprano Meigui Zhang as Dai Yu in “Dream of the Red Chamber.”
Photo: Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera

Watch a "Dream of the Red Chamber" Moving Moment, featuring Meigui Zhang

The New York Times: "In March, the opera 'The dream of Red Chamber' will travel to the Hong Kong Arts Festival, which co-produced the work, and may tour elsewhere in Asia."

This stunning co-production with the San Francisco Opera marks another milestone, which is bound to be a highlight of the Hong Kong Arts Festival’s 45th anniversary. Performance will be on March 17 & 18, 2017 at Hong Kong culture center.

The Mercury News review of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the new "enchanting" opera by Bright Sheng, with co-librettist David Henry Hwang and director Stan Lai, with "dazzling sets and costumes by Academy Award-winning designer Tim Yip".

Read the SFGate on the "intermittently exquisite opera" with a "lush and varied score by composer Bright Sheng"

Also, check out the San Francisco Opera's photo gallery, with breathtaking images from "Dream of the Red Chamber":

Bright Sheng's newest album is released on Naxos for his chamber music and piano solo works titled: A Night at the Chinese Opera. The album is now available to order or download at Amazon or iTunes

Bright Sheng's Seven Tunes Heard in China is recently recorded by Alisa Weilerstein in her debut solo album. Now is available to order or download at Amazon or iTunes

Dream of the Red Chamber

Opera Dream of the Red Chamber World Premiere--a World-wide Success Story:

-Within one week of the premiere, the entire run was sold out!
-A Chinadaily online video clip received 4 million hits in one week!
-Many audience went back to see it the second time!
-Many audience members, Chinese AND Americans alike, reported tearing eyes watching the opera
-Many, many more

The opera is based on the most important and popular novel in the history of Chinese literature also called The Story of the Stone, an autobiographical novel by the 18th Century writer Cao Xue Qing (曹雪芹).

An opera in two acts, music by Bright Sheng, libretto (in English) by David Henry Hwang and Bright Sheng, stage design by Tim Yip, directed by award-winning director Stan Lai had an incredible run at San Francisco War Memorial Opera House.

For more information about the opera please contact Peggy Monastra

After a successful premiere in San Francisco last fall, this beautiful production was again sold out at Hong Kong Arts festival in March 2017. On Setperber 8th and 9th, this San Francisco Opera production had its exciting Chinese premiere in Beijing at Beijing Poly theatre!

The Opera has subsequently toured to Changsha on September 15th. &16th. and Wuhan on 22nd. & 23rd.

Intimacy of Creativity

Hailed by the Financial Times as a festival with a “finely hewn sense of craft,” Intimacy of Creativity returns for another innovative season from April 23 to May 6, 2018

Founder and Artistic Director Bright Sheng is joined by Distinguished Guest Composer and chair of the composition department of the Juilliard School, Robert Beaser; Ensemble-in-Residence and critically acclaimed Israeli Chamber Project; Guest Artists Gilad Hochman, recipient of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Prize; Yael Manor, Guest Artist and noted Israeli contemporary pianist; acclaimed Guest Artists from Hong Kong; and up to 6 emerging Composer Fellows selected through an international call-for-scores.

One Composer Fellow may be selected to have their featured work programmed on the 2018-19 Israel season of the Israeli Chamber Project, the season partner of IC2018, as part of a larger programming exchange to include the work of Bright Sheng.

The Intimacy of Creativity 2018

The Last Train: Bright Sheng at TEDxUofM