Buddha Passion (Tan Dun) Budapest 2024 Sen Guo, Huiling Zhu, Henry Ngan, Elliot Madore, Jiangfan Yong
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Buddha Passion
- Composer: Tan Dun
- Libretto: Tan Dun, Additional text for Ode to Compassions by Wang Wei (Tang Dynasty), 6th Zen Patriarch Hui Neng (Tang Dynasty), Wu Chao (Tang Dynasty), Master Xuan Zang (Tang Dynasty) and Master Hsing Yun
- Venue & Opera Company: Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, müpa, Budapest, hungary
- Recorded: April 14, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Sen Guo, Huiling Zhu, Henry Ngan, Elliot Madore, Jiangfan Yong
- Conductor: Tan Dun
- Orchestra: Concerto Budapest
- Chorus: Hungarian Radio Choir
- Stage Director: Csaba Kael
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: müpa
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The monumental, six-part Buddha Passion, commissioned by the Dresden Music Festival, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, was composed in 2018. The work, in Chinese and Sanskrit, features soloists, choir and orchestra, and was performed by the Munich Philharmonic and the Lübeck International Choir Academy in Dresden.
Before composing, world-renowned composer and Grammy and Oscar winner Tan Dun spent a long time at the Mokao Caves (Thousand Buddha Caves), a World Heritage Site in western China. The hundreds of temples and the cave system designed for meditation preserve the relics of Buddhist art spanning a thousand years. The direct source of inspiration for the composition’s lyrics were the murals around the more than 15-meter-long reclining Buddha statue in Cave No. 158, as well as the ancient writings and musical notations that Tan Dun studied on site, in the Dunhuang Cave Library.