{"id":61040,"date":"2025-11-19T23:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/61040\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:08:29","slug":"a-propulsive-premiere-and-a-thoughtful-parsifal-at-san-francisco-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/61040\/","title":{"rendered":"A Propulsive Premiere and a Thoughtful \u2018Parsifal\u2019 at San Francisco Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">San Francisco<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">Huang Ruo\u2019s\u00a0\u201cThe Monkey King,\u201d which had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on Friday, successfully fuses two very different traditions. Based on the opening chapters of \u201cJourney to the West\u201d by Wu Cheng\u2019en, a foundational Chinese novel from 1592, it presents its rebellious, trickster antihero\u2014a monkey born from a magic stone, who challenges gods and rulers\u2014in all his colorful, anarchic glory.\u00a0Mr. Huang skillfully manipulates the musical language of Western opera, adding only gongs, Chinese cymbals and a pipa (a plucked instrument) to the orchestra, to conjure up the spirit of Chinese opera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92025 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco Huang Ruo\u2019s\u00a0\u201cThe Monkey King,\u201d which had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[5282,22690,36939,9097,14265,7,3573,36942,36943,36941,967,18,36940,330,434,10239,463,441,101,103,102,104,106,105,454,1058,435,436,455],"class_list":["post-61040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-arts","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-arts-in-review","tag-asia","tag-asia-pacific","tag-california","tag-china","tag-developing-economies","tag-east-asia","tag-emerging-market-countries","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-greater-china","tag-music","tag-north-america","tag-opera","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-synd","tag-theater","tag-united-states","tag-western-u-s","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}