Visit and for more on the music of Stewart Wallace. This is a potent addition to the operatic repertoire and a triumph for both the company and general director David Gockley, who backed the undertaking. The piece draws on the reliable themes of musical theater - love, family, fate and death - and does it with almost unerring precision. the deepest pleasures in this beautiful and richly affecting new work are far more intimate and more familiar. Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle comments: The opera sweeps effortlessly from fable‐like past to factual present, from Chinese village to urban America and received overwhelming critical acclaim following its premiere. One of those companies is San Francisco Opera, but following in the wake of. The opera is set in China during the years before the Communist revolution, framed by the memories and forgotten history of an elderly Chinese mother in present‐day San Francisco. Now in its third season, the Metropolitan Operas HD broadcast initiative. Based on the best-selling novel by Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter is a multi‐generational family epic that explores one family's history through three generations of mothers and daughters. Ken Smith and Joanna Lee will also engage in a dialogue about the opera as part of the Shanghai International Literary Festival. The broadcast will include interviews with several of the principal singers, including mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao. On March 6 and 7, Shanghai Radio airs Stewart Wallace's The Bonesetter's Daughter, taken from the opera's 2008 premiere run at San Francisco Opera conducted by Steven Sloane. Stewart Wallace's The Bonesetter's Daughter in Shanghai Radio Broadcast
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