Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met
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Book details
- Author
- Hao Jiang Tian
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 336
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Memoirs
- Topics
- opera · memoir · Cultural Revolution · Chinese American · classical music · coming of age · immigration · Beijing
- ISBN-13
- 9780470056417
About the author
HAO JIANG TIAN is a Chinese-American bass opera singer who performed as a principal artist of the Metropolitan Opera for over two decades, appearing in more than 26 operas there across 20 seasons. He is the author of Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met, co-authored with Lois B. Morris, and Turandot at the Arena.
Tian earned a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Denver in 1987 and trained at the China Central Conservatory of Music. He has sung over 1,400 performances of 50 operatic roles at major opera houses worldwide.
When not writing, Tian serves as founder and artistic director of iSING! International Young Artists Festival. His memoir recounts his childhood in Communist China and his rise to international opera stardom.
Hao lives in New York City, Denver, and Beijing.