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The music world is eagerly anticipating the premiere for the new opera The Monkey King. Based on the famouns 16th-century Chinese novel, this opera features fabulous costumes, puppetry and dance as well as exciting music by Chinese American composer Huang Ruo and a libretto by the famous playwright David Henry Hwang. As an Asian culture enthusiast, you can learn more about this captivating production and the speaker, Kip Cranna is the perfect person to explain the historical and literaty background as well as the plot, music, and libretto of this production with video and audio examples.