Along the Roaring River : My Wild Ride from

Since his 1991 debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Hao Jiang Tian has appeared on the world's greatest stages, more than 300 times at the Met alone. How he got there is a drama of bittersweet humor, mortal danger, heartbreaking tragedy, and inspiring triumph-more passionate and turbulent than even the grandest opera. In Along the Roaring River, Tian relives his coming of age in China during the chaotic Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and his dramatic journey from hard labor in a Beijing factory to international opera stardom.

Hao Jiang Tian is the first Chinese-born opera singer to achieve a lasting success on world stages. A bass with a voice that is unusually sweet and versatile, he has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera every season since he debuted there in 1991. He performs the major bass roles at the great opera houses around the globe. Recently he and his wife, Martha Liao, have begun to foster new Chinese opera and talent for the world to hear. Now an American citizen, Tian has homes in New York City, Denver (where he used to sing at a piano bar), and Beijing.

Lois B. Morris and her husband, Robert Lipsyte, have written for the New York Times about classical music and opera. Separately, Morris writes about mental health and psychology, including a long running column in Allure. She has written or co-written eight books. Lipsyte is a New York Times contributor, former sports and city columnist, and television commentator. He has written seventeen books.

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Prelude
The Beast with Eighty-Eight Teeth
Music Torture
The Little Emperor of Destruction
Mama Nature Sings
So Long, Beijing
Embracing the Beast
What Was I Thinking?
Yellow Hair Blues
My Mother and the White Boned Demon
A Card Game
Son of a Gun Interlude
Big Old Yankee
John Peking
Facing the Music
Love Conquers All
Hao Giovanni
A Night at the Opera
The Devil in China
Interlude
Fishing
Millenium
Where You Come From
Index
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Along the Roaring River : My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met

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