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The Song Poet

Name: The Song Poet
Start: 2023-03-26T14:00:00
Location: Luminary Arts Center

Minnesota Opera

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The first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as a refugee. With his poetry, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family, polishing their reality so that they might shi...

Program

Jocelyn Hagen - The Song Poet

Composer

Participants

Charles H. Eaton

A Supervisor

Tiffany Chang

Conductor

Nathan Romportl

Hue Yang

Hai-Ting Chinn

Youa Lee / Dawb Yang

Lavender Vy Truong

Young Kalia

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10 dates (9 Mar - 26 Mar)

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