SAN FRANCISCO - It was a week before the premiere, and Bright Sheng, the composer and co-librettist of the new opera "Dream of the Red Chamber," was already bracing for the backlash.

旧金山——距离首演还有一个星期，新歌剧《红楼梦》的剧本作者之一，作曲家盛宗亮已经准备好迎接强烈的反对意见了。

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The work was a satire of Italian opera and was the brain child of librettist Henry Fielding.

这项工作是一个讽刺和意大利歌剧是编剧亨利·菲尔丁大脑孩子。

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And, finally, Don Giovanni, which Kinmonth has re-situated in 18th-century Venice, home to Casanova and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, whose roots in Venetian street theatre would have given the opera's original productions an abrasive topical edge as recognizable to contemporary audiences as Shakespeare's words were to the crowds at the Globe.

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