The Monkey King composer, Huang Ruo, was inspired to write the opera to give his children a superhero figure from Asia to look up to.

Long-awaited production of “The Monkey King,” adapted by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang from the classic 16th-century ...

Ruo’s compositions include “Bound,” which premiered at the Houston Grand Opera in 2014, and “An American Soldier,” first seen ...

The Monkey King is a 2014 Hong Kong-Chinese fantasy ... The plot is based on an episode of Journey to the West, a Chinese literary classic written in the Ming Dynasty by Wu Cheng'en.

Composer Huang Ruo's latest work, The Monkey King, will have its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on November 14.

the composer said. He decided to write The Monkey King, based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West in which a primate born from stone acquires supernatural powers ...

the composer said. He decided to write “The Monkey King,” based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” in which a primate born from stone acquires ...

the composer said. He decided to write "The Monkey King,” based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” in which a primate born from stone acquires ...

the composer said. He decided to write “The Monkey King,” based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” in which a primate born from stone acquires ...