
Works & Process to Present San Francisco Opera’s ‘The Monkey King’
By Francisco SalazarWorks & Process at the Guggenheim will present San Francisco Opera’s “The Monkey King” by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang with Diane Paulus.
The event will be held on March 9, 2025, at the Peter B. Lewis Theater.
The evening will go behind the scenes with composer Huang Ruo, librettist David Henry Hwang, and director Diane Paulus as they discuss their newest collaboration, “The Monkey King” with moderator Ken Smith.
There will also be excerpts ahead of the production’s November 2025 world premiere at San Francisco Opera.
“The Monkey King” was commissioned by the San Francisco Opera in partnership with the Chinese Heritage Foundation of Minnesota and draws from the opening chapter of Journey to the West (16th c.), a Ming Dynasty novel widely considered one of China’s four greatest literary classics.
The opera is set to world premiere as part of the San Francisco Opera’s 2025-26 season which is set to be announced on Feb. 4, 2025.
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