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Rick Shiomi

Bühnenbild

Mina Kinukawa

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Khamphian Vang

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Karin Olson

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Celeste Marie Johnson

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Erica Guo

Minnesota Opera

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The Song Poet

Minneapolis

Vereinigte Staaten

Luminary Arts Center

The Song Poet Jocelyn Hagen

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Genehmigt

Music By Jocelyn Hagen with additional Hmong lyrics set by Bee Yang
Libretto by Kao Kalia Yang

A father’s love, a family’s journey.
The first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as a refugee. With his poetry, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family, polishing their reality so that they might shine. 

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A father’s love, a family’s journey.
The first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as a refugee. With his poetry, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family, polishing their reality so that they might shine.

English

The Song Poet by Hagen, J., Ab (2023/2023), Unter der Regie von Rick Shiomi,, Luminary Arts Center, Minneapolis, Vereinigte Staaten

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