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The Bonesetter's Daughter Featured on OPERA America's Salon Series

Sep. 15, 2009

On Wednesday, September 16, OPERA America presents a special salon concert performance of selections from Stewart Wallace's opera The Bonesetter's Daughter. Based on the best-selling novel by Amy Tan, who also wrote the libretto, the work is a multi‐generational family epic that explores one family's history through three generations of mothers and daughters. A selection of scenes and arias will be performed at the OPERA America performance space by sopranos Qian Yi, Nicole Mitchell, Mika Shigematsu accompanied by pianist and music director of the performance Timothy Long. The opera is set in China during the years before the Communist revolution, framed by the memories and forgotten history of an elderly Chinese mother in present‐day San Francisco.

The opera sweeps from fable‐like past to factual present, from Chinese village to urban America and received overwhelming critical acclaim following its premiere at San Francisco Opera. Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle comments:

...the deepest pleasures in this beautiful and richly affecting new work are far more intimate and more familiar. The piece draws on the reliable themes of musical theater - love, family, fate and death - and does it with almost unerring precision. This is a potent addition to the operatic repertoire and a triumph for both the company and general director David Gockley, who backed the undertaking.

For more on the music of Stewart Wallace, please visit www.stewart-wallace.com and www.schott-music.com.

Stewart Wallace
The Bonesetter's Daughter (2008)
opera in two acts
libretto (En) by Amy Tan
for 2 mezzo-sopranos, mezzo-soprano/contralto, 2 baritones, bass, Chinese Rock Singer, Kunju singer;
pic.2(afl)2.ca.3(Ebcl, bcl)bcl(cbcl)2.cbsn-43(pictp)3.btbn.1-timp.3perc-hp.cel-str
Chinese instruments: 2 suonas, 4 Chinese percussion players
125'

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