A Glimpse at the Other Side of the Globe

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
Featured at the Lincoln Center Festival, The Night Banquet reinterpets a centuries-old Chinese story of a haunting scroll painting.
Director Chen Shi-Zheng discusses the opera’s themes of power, debauchery, and morality, and pipa player Wu Man gives us a solo performance. Musician Elliott Sharp, who’s also the artistic director for the Lincoln Center Festival, stops by to talk about the finale of the East-meets-West concert, Maghreb-Mashreq. Plus, we revisit a performance by renowned jazz and rhythm & blues pianist Henry Butler.

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