Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle
For a writer who has done everything from mining an operatic masterpiece ( his 1988 Tony Award-winning drama “M. Butterfly”) to refashioning a problematic Broadway musical (“Flower Drum Song”) to devising the cross-cultural linguistic tangle of “Chinglish,” an offer to write the libretto for a “Dream of the Red Chamber” opera would seem too good to pass up.
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