Hao Jiang Tian saw his first opera in 1983. It was the day he arrived from China with four words of English (hello, OK, bye, yes) and $35 in his pocket. An aspiring singer, he spent $8 of it on a s… ...

Hao Jiang Tian and his wife, Martha Liao, with the cake that famed baker Sylvia Weinstock created for a reception celebrating the 30th anniversary of his arrival in the U.S.

Hao Jiang Tian: 'From Mao to the Met' For more than 20 years, Tian's basso voice has filled major American opera houses. As one of the few Chinese stars in opera, his life story has been as ...

Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met by Hao Jiang Tian with Lois B. Morris and a forward by Robert Lipsyte. Wiley, 322 pp. $27.95 We in Colorado were the first to hear Hao ...

Opera singer Hao Jiang Tian, who will star in Tang Jianping’s ‘Voyage to the East” in New York, is strengthening cultural ties between the East and West.

NEW YORK, May 4, 2008 - Speaking (and singing) to a sellout crowd, opera star Hao Jiang Tian reminisced about his tumultuous journey from the Cultural Revolution to the Metropolitan Opera. Tian is the ...

When Hao Jiang Tian was a teenager, growing up in a China wrecked by the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, his prospects were not bright. His parents had been sent away for re-education and he was ...

Now, Hao Jiang Tian (or Tian, as he prefers to be called) is a regular fixture at the Metropolitan Opera. He also has a new memoir out, titled Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the ...

NEW YORK, May 4, 2008 - Speaking (and singing) to a sellout crowd, opera star Hao Jiang Tian reminisced about his tumultuous journey from the Cultural Revolution to the Metropolitan Opera. Tian is the ...