This interesting link about Ha Jin's stint as a librettist got tucked away during the holiday break for presentation now.
Fans who relished the Chinese novelist Ha Jin's "Waiting" (1999) and "War Trash" (2004), both of which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, may be surprised to see his name listed as co-author of the libretto for Tan Dun's much ballyhooed opera "The First Emperor," which will have its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on December 21. Mr. Jin, who has already announced in interviews that his first opera libretto will also be his last, seems the most surprised at all. Yet this writer's remarkable trajectory suggests that for him, the implausible is merely something waiting to happen.
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