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EVENT DETAILS

In October 2011, 19-year-old Chinese-American Army Pvt. Danny Chen was found dead in a guard tower at his base in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. In an intimate conversation highlighted by musical performances by special guests, composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang explore their opera, An American Soldier, which reveals the dangerous and tragic consequences of prejudice through the story of Pvt. Chen’s death.

Huang Ruo, an award-winning conductor, has been cited by The New Yorker as "one of the world's leading young composers." His opera Dr. Sun Yat-Sen was recently given its American premiere by the Santa Fe Opera in 2014, and will be given its Canadian premiere by the Vancouver Opera in 2016. David Henry Hwang, a renowned playwright and screenwriter as well as America’s most-produced living opera librettist, is the award-winning author of M. Butterfly. Agnes Hsu-Tang (moderator), a UNESCO cultural policy advisor and documentarian, is a managing director of the Metropolitan Opera.

LOCATION

The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024