Posted on Jan 27, 2012 | Leave a comment
Most Vietnamese are familiar with the story of Quan Âm Thị Kính, a thousand-year-old Vietnamese folk tale, and the Buddhist chanting Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật (equivalent to “Amen” or “Hallelujah”). For the first time ever there is an opera by a Vietnamese-American composer featuring this literary work and the celestial Nam-Mô-A-Di-Đà-Phật. P.Q. Phan, associate professor of composition at …(read more)
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