Explore Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang’s contemporary opera, Dream of the Red Chamber, in a 90-minute presentation by scholar Ken Smith.

Critic and journalist Ken Smith has traveled widely, covering music on five continents for a range of publications including The Los Angeles Times, Travel & Leisure and Opera News. Before the pandemic he divided his time between New York, where he serves as a North American correspondent for Gramophone magazine, and Hong Kong, where he is the Asian performing arts critic for the Financial Times, a featured columnist for China’s Opera magazine and a regular commentator for RTHK Radio 4. He has given lectures and pre-concert talks for Santa Fe Opera and Central City Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the University of Hong Kong and Columbia University’s Miller Theatre. He is co-music director of Dong Folk Songs and Miao Music for China’s MedialFusion group, and an advisor to the Western China Cultural Ecology Research Workshop. An active collaborator with Stewart Wallace and Amy Tan’s research in China, he is the author of Fate! Luck! Chance!...The Making of The Bonesetter’s Daughter Opera, published by Chronicle Books.

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