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The Song Poet
PREMIERE3/9/2023
COMPOSERJocelyn Hagen   
LIBRETTISTKao Kalia Yang   
Minnesota Opera
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DATETIMELOCATION
3/09/20237:30 PMLuminary Arts Center
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
3/11/20237:30 PMLuminary Arts Center
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
3/12/20232:00 PMLuminary Arts Center
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
3/16/20237:30 PMLuminary Arts Center
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
3/18/20237:30 PMLuminary Arts Center
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
3/19/20232:00 PMLuminary Arts Center
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Synopsis

A father’s love, a family’s journey.
The first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as an immigrant. With his poetry, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family, polishing their reality so that they might shine.

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This work ranks as the #352 most produced North American title since 2000.
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