The stage, in another voice

《往事只能回味》 (In Search of Past Time) - a theater production. For five decades, two men had lived worlds apart: one grew up in red-hot China under Mao and ended up a shining opera singer in New York; the other was born in white-hot Taiwan under Chang Kai-shek and became a top brass in the Asian TV industry. At first all they shared was a catchy Chinese pop tune, then they discovered they both grew up in a military compound, one of victors and the other of the exiled, and that they both had a brother separated by life and lost to death, that their first loves never quite disappeared... that they dared dream and now they still dared remember. A theatre production in Taipei starring Hao Jiang Tian and Wang Wei Chong. "From Mao to the Met - A one-man show PBS Special" features Metropolitan Opera basso Hao Jiang Tian weaving song and story into a compelling tale of growing up in China under Chairman Mao. Performing songs of the Cultural Revolution, American standards such as "Some Enchanted Evening", Irish song "Danny Boy" and operatic arias from his favorite roles, Tian tells the story of the music-and the woman- that changed his life. Accompanying himself on accordion, guitar and piano, joined by the voice of his singing parrot, Tian reveals the spirit, and deep resonant voice, that carried him from Mao to the Met. 《我哥我歌》"Sing Brother Sing" an autobiographical one-man show in which Hao Jiang Tian—the most celebrated Chinese-born singer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York—reflects on his memories of his late older brother.