His own approach is to circle back, to look again, to reconsider, sometimes over decades. In November, the San Francisco Opera will present the world premiere of Huang Ruo’s opera “The Monkey King,” for which Hwang wrote the libretto. It’s an adaptation of the 16th-century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” that he first attempted about 25 years ago, when he wrote it as an NBC mini-series. (It aired in 2001 and centered a white American protagonist; the opera will not.) He’s also working on a second revision of “Flower Drum Song,” the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about Chinese immigrants in San Francisco.
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