Red Azalea

William Kraft, Libretto by Christopher Hawes

Los Angeles-based percussionist/composer, former composer-in-residence at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, adapts Anchee Min's harrowing memoir of escape from Communist China.

Conductor: George Manahan
Anchee Min: Kyungsun Choi
Little Green: Kiera Duffy
Yan Shen: Misoon Ghim
Autumn Leaves/Lu: Cherry Duke
Party Secretary: Andrew Drost

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VOX 2006

Blake
California Fictions
Harmony
The Maiden Tower
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern…
A Letter to E. 11th Street
Leaving Santa Monica
Red Azalea
Crescent City
Frau Margot
Messer Marco Polo
Paradises Lost