Opera - The Monkey King This image released by the San Francisco Opera shows tenor Kang Wang, center, rehearsing for the new opera "The Monkey King," on Nov. 6, 2025 in San Francisco. (Cory Weaver/San ...

From a visual and theatrical standpoint alone, composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang's superb new opera "The Monkey King," drawn from a 16th-century Chinese novel, immediately ranks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An early rehearsal for Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's "The Monkey King" with the Monkey puppet. (Cory Weaver/San Francisco ...

There’s a new hero in the world of opera, one with amazing superpowers, an unstoppable mission — and a tail. “The Monkey King,” created by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang, hearkens ...

The Monkey King — known as Sun Wukong in Chinese — first burst fully-formed out of a rock in the classic 1592 novel Journey to the West, widely attributed to the poet Wu Cheng'en. Steeped in Buddhist ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A rascally superhero born from a stone egg, the Monkey King is beloved in Chinese mythology, appearing in everything from a 16th century epic to modern comics, animated movies and ...