Zhou Long interview by Steve Paul

To hear Zhou Long tell it, the making of an opera requires a lot of give and take.
For one thing, there’s the teamwork of the main collaborators — the librettist, the composer, the producers. But there’s an inner struggle, too, as the music evolves and as the composer — that would be Zhou — finds his way for the first time wading into the stream of a long tradition.

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