歌剧创作工作坊 NORFOLK 11 月 13 日晚在纽约大学免费呈现两场选段：故事取材弗吉尼亚州华人社区历史，四名歌手参与、音乐约 30 分钟后设艺术家对谈
歌剧 NORFOLK 的一次免费创作工作坊呈现于 11 月 13 日周五在纽约大学举行，内容不同于一部已完成的制作，现场呈现该剧的两个选段，随后与艺术家对谈。
作曲家 Randall Eng 与编剧 Monique Truong 正在围绕一对父女、一段弗吉尼亚州的童年以及被带入纽约晚年生活的记忆创作这部作品，Grassworks Productions 把纽约场列为美东时间晚 7 时至 8 时，地点为纽约大学蒂施研究生音乐剧写作项目的黑匣子剧场，另一场工作坊已于 11 月 11 日周三在弗吉尼亚州诺福克的 Attucks 剧院举行、时间同为晚 7 时至 8 时，两场官方列表均注明免费入场。
这次公开呈现是在四名歌手对仍在写作中的材料进行一周工作坊之后举行的，Kelly Kuo 担任指挥，Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li 担任导演，已公布的形式为约 30 分钟音乐，之后设艺术家对谈与观众提问，音乐于晚 7 时开始、对谈于晚 7 时 30 分开始，这是一次创作中作品的呈现，不是完整歌剧首演。
主办方公布的演员包括饰演 Rose 与 Davy 母亲的 Karen Vuong、饰演 Young 母亲的 Hai-Ting Chinn、饰演 Young 的 Xiaojie Ji 以及饰演 Rich 叔叔与 Davy 的 Junhan Choi，Jason Wirth 担任钢琴，Abagael Cheng 担任该工作坊制作人。
在主办方梗概中，Rose 眼中的父亲 Young Sing 医生是一名受人尊敬的医生与一家之主、生活在斯塔滕岛，他的记忆把她带回他在诺福克的青年时代，少年 Young 在东方杂碎馆工作、观看西部片，故事在 1936 年、1947 年与 1950 年的诺福克以及 1988 年的斯塔滕岛之间展开，这个虚构家庭的故事取材于弗吉尼亚州华人社区的历史，不应被读作某个具名当地家庭的纪实传记，纽约场预订页把地址列为纽约华盛顿广场 1 号、邮编 10003。
Opera Workshop NORFOLK Presents Two Scenes Free at New York University on the Evening of November 13, Drawing on the History of Virginia Chinese Community, With Four Singers and About 30 Minutes of Music Followed by an Artist Talkback
A free opera workshop presentation of NORFOLK took place at New York University on Friday, November 13, offering something different from a finished production, with two scenes from the work followed by a conversation with the artists.
Composer Randall Eng and librettist Monique Truong are developing the work around a father and daughter, a Virginia childhood and memories carried into a later life in New York, Grassworks Productions lists the New York presentation from 7 to 8 p.m. Eastern at the Black Box Theatre of the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, and a separate workshop took place at Attucks Theatre in Norfolk, Virginia, on Wednesday, November 11, also from 7 to 8 p.m., with both official listings describing free admission.
The public presentation follows a week in which four singers workshop material that is still being written, Kelly Kuo conducts and Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li directs, and the announced format is approximately 30 minutes of music, with an artist talkback and audience questions afterwards, the published agenda starts the music at 7 p.m. and the discussion at 7:30 p.m., and this is a work-in-progress showing rather than a full-opera premiere.
The organizer names Karen Vuong as Rose and Davy Mother, Hai-Ting Chinn as Young Mother, Xiaojie Ji as Young, and Junhan Choi as Uncle Rich and Davy, Jason Wirth is the pianist, and Abagael Cheng produces the workshop.
In the organizer synopsis, Rose knows her father, Dr. Young Sing, as a respected doctor and family man with a life on Staten Island, his memories lead her back to his youth in Norfolk, where a teenage Young works at The Oriental Chop Suey Café and watches Western films, the story moves among Norfolk in 1936, 1947 and 1950 and Staten Island in 1988, the fictional family story draws on the history of the Chinese community in Virginia and should not be read as a documentary biography of a named local family, and the New York booking page lists 1 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003.
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图片来源：图：图中是纽约华盛顿广场拱门，纽约大学主校区位于该广场周边，资料图。Marco Almbauer，CC0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: file photo related to this report. Marco Almbauer，CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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