Organization

Tête à Tête Festival

Singer

Mandy Liu

Monkey King

Conductor

Anna Vienna Ho

Stage director

Michael CT Lam

Henry Ngan

Pigsy

HoWang Yuen

Gao Cai

Frankie Fung

Mr. Gao

Valerie Wong

Gao Cuilan

Buddha

Xuanzang

English

The Monster of Gao Village

London

United Kingdom

The Cockpit

Public

Approved

Third part of the series Journey to the West, after The Monk of the River (2021) and Buddha and the Monkey King (2020). The Monkey King and Xuanzang go into the Gao Village on their journey to the West, realising there’s a monster in the village.

A new opera adapted from Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Scored for an ensemble of Chinese and Western musical instruments, this opera blends both musical traditions. Sung in English.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast