Romeo aria (2023)

Romeo Aria (2023)

tenor/piano·5 minutes

Score

5/15/2023

Manhattan School of Music

tenor:Hang Su/piano:Ruoyi Chen

program note

Micro Opera “The Story of a Mental Hospital” tells the story of a profit-oriented, treacherous businessman, a power-obsessed high-ranking offcial, and aminor actor who longs for love. They come together by chance and express thesatirical theme through the conflict between the three extreme roles representing money, power, and emotion, respectively. The dramatization of the end further emphasizes the theme. “Romeo Ariais the minor actor Romeo fantasizingabout his love story with Juliet.