In a new panel hosted by Works and Process at the Guggenheim, composer Huang Ruo and writer David Henry Hwang discussed their newest collaboration, "M. Butterfly” opera.
Inspired by the true story of a French diplomat who carried on a twenty-year love affair with a star of the Peking Opera, "M. Butterfly” opera is based on Hwang's 1988 Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award-winning Broadway play of the same name.