Xu Ying (徐瑛, born 1962) is a Chinese librettist. His traditional Beijing opera librettos include Hunchback Prime Minister Liu (2002), Sun Wu the Strategist (2002), Cai Wenji (2003). He wrote the libretto for

Bun Ching Lam Lam Bun-Ching (; b. Macau, 1954) is a Chinese American composer, pianist, and conductor. Early life and training Lam holds a B.A. degree in piano performance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1976). She obtained a scholarship from the U ...

's chamber opera Wenji (2001), co-wrote with composer

Tan Dun Tan Dun (, ; born 18 August 1957) is a Chinese-born American composer and conductor. A leading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences, a dichotomy which has shaped much of his life and ...

the libretto of

Tea (opera) ''Tea: A Mirror of Soul'' (Chinese 茶 "tea") is a 2002 Chinese-language western-style opera by Tan Dun, to a libretto by the composer and Peking opera librettist Xu Ying. The opera was commissioned by Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan and was given i ...

(2002), and was co-librettist of the opera

Poet Li Bai ''Poet Li Bai'' (Chinese: 《诗人李白》) is a Chinese-language chamber opera by Guo Wenjing to a libretto by Diana Liao (廖端丽) and Xu Ying (徐瑛) on the subject of the poet Li Bai. It was premiered, with subtitles, 7 July 2007 at the ...

(2007) for composer

Guo Wenjing Guo Wenjing (born 1 February 1956, in Chongqing) is a Chinese composer and educator. Guo Wenjing is a contemporary Chinese composer. Unlike many Chinese composers who have studied and lived in other countries, he has only studied in Beijing. He ...

.''Opera'' Volume 59 Page 38 2008 "China Shanghai - Guo Wenjing is the leading Chinese opera composer of his generation still based in his native country, and perhaps anywhere in the world. His new chamber opera. Poet Li Bai, is set to a unique libretto, though its treatment is.. The librettists Diana Liao and Xu Ying include subtle, but only fragmentary allusions to Li Bai's most famous poems, which ... in a manner at once more rigorous and more nuanced than his more celebrated 1978 Beijing classmate, Tan Dun."

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