{"id":89433,"date":"2026-10-01T20:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89433"},"modified":"2026-10-01T20:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:13:05","slug":"how-westernised-cantonese-opera-sleepless-moon-marries-turandot-and-the-flower-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89433","title":{"rendered":"How Westernised Cantonese opera Sleepless Moon marries Turandot and The Flower Princess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/01\/a1611bcf-3f7b-4ee5-a943-e27000850c38_57cda63b.jpg?itok=KDuVNp7g&amp;v=1790840483\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">What happens when two operatic heavyweights \u2013 Warren Mok Wah-lun in Western opera and Alis Lin Yingshi in Cantonese opera \u2013 meet at an ad hoc music jamming session?<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">\u201cA crossover opera that combines <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Turandot<\/em> and <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Flower Princess<\/em>,\u201d says <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Lora Chow Hiu-ching<\/span>, a Hong Kong composer and soprano.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">What began as an informal artistic exchange session quickly evolved into a serious artistic endeavour. Four years later, Chow is fine-tuning acoustics at the East Kowloon Cultural Centre, where cross-cultural production <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Sleepless Moon<\/em> will premiere on October 1.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chow is one of the lead creators of <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Sleepless Moon<\/em>, alongside producers Ivy Tse Yan-wah and Eddie Tam Sun-keung, an established Cantonese opera performer. Although Chow was not present when Mok proposed a crossover opera, Tam, a guest at the private jam session, put her name forward. Both Chow and Tam are alumni of Yale University, in the US state of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3369425\/how-westernised-cantonese-opera-sleepless-moon-marries-turandot-and-flower-princess?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when two operatic heavyweights \u2013 Warren Mok Wah-lun in Western opera and Alis Lin Yingshi in Cantonese opera \u2013 meet at an ad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6373,3532,13673,9217,9497,12121,30913,30914,30912],"class_list":["post-89433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-cantonese","tag-flower","tag-marries","tag-moon","tag-opera","tag-princess","tag-sleepless","tag-turandot","tag-westernised","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}