4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12 January 2005
Muziektheater

From humble beginnings, growing up planting rice in rural China, Tan Dun has risen to become one of today’s most revered 'world music' composers. He won an Oscar for his soundtrack to Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Grawemeyer Award – the most prestigious prize for music composition today...

Set in 9th-century Japan, Tea tells the story of High Monk, Seikyo, who has a firm ritual of drinking tea from an empty bowl. When asked by the other monks why he does this, he replies that ten years earlier he was once a prince but became a monk following a bitter love experience. The story then goes back ten years earlier to China, at the time of the Tang Dynasty, when Seikyo is still a prince and in love with Lan, the daughter of the Chinese emperor...