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The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown
Jason Kao Hwang - ComposerCatherine Filloux - Librettist
Juan Rivas - Conductor
Jean Randich - Director
Sandia Ang - Eva (soprano)
Ryu-Kyung Kim - Mother (mezzo soprano)
Zheng Zhou - Father's ghost (baritone)
With an orchestration of Chinese and Western instruments, The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown boldly charts the journey of an immigrant family over continents, languages, and generations. After her father’s sudden death, Eva/Yee-Wa, who was raised in the U.S., struggles with her mother’s fierce silence. As her father appears in both memory and spirit, she confronts a forbidden box of composite photographs, fragmented images, which unearth a mysterious past. Set in a small apartment in New York City’s Chinatown, tales of love, tragedy and heroism, from both China and America, are unveiled in a story, which flows freely through time. With music creating a cross-cultural landscape of dreams, memories, and stark realities, The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown tells an essential and mythic tale of one family’s loss, transformation, and survival.
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Tracks
| The Women of the Grave | 4:39 |
| First Words, First Drink | 5:52 |
| The Red Box | 2:02 |
| No Name | 3:24 |
| You Opened Your Mouth, A Fish Came Out! | 3:12 |
| Across the Seas-Mother | 1:43 |
| Across the Seas-Trio | 1:55 |
