{"id":44029,"date":"2014-06-13T08:34:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T12:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=44029"},"modified":"2014-06-11T00:41:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T04:41:40","slug":"huang-ruos-opera-world-premiere-an-american-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=44029","title":{"rendered":"Huang Ruo&#8217;s Opera World Premiere &#8220;An American Soldier&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, June 13, 2014, 7:30 PM<br \/>\nThe Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater, Washington D.C.<br \/>\n2700 F St NW, Washington, DC 20566<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Huang-Ruos-Opera-World-Premiere-An-American-Soldier.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[44029]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44030\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Huang-Ruos-Opera-World-Premiere-An-American-Soldier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commissioned and produced by the Washington National Opera, Huang Ruo&#8217;s new opera An American Soldier will receive its world premiere at The Kennedy Center on June 13 and 14, as part as the Washington National Opera&#8217;s American Opera Initiative.  Composed by Huang Ruo with a libretto by David Henry Hwang, An American Soldier is based on the life and death of American soldier Pvt. Danny Chen.  On October 3, 2011, Chinese-American Army Pvt. Danny Chen was found dead in a guard tower at his base in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. The real circumstances behind his death, though, illustrate a darker undercurrent to life in the military. Based on a true story, and drawing from the ensuing courts-martial of Chen&#8217;s fellow soldiers, An American Soldier explores what happens when the very people who are supposed to protect you in a combat zone become your enemy.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/events\/?event=OOOMA\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, June 13, 2014, 7:30 PM The Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater, Washington D.C. 2700 F St NW, Washington, DC 20566<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44035,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44029\/revisions\/44035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}