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The Met in HD, The First Emperor, 2007

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 13 January 2007
Dun, The First Emperor
Metropolitan Opera
Tan Dun, Conductor
Elizabeth Futral, Princess Yueyang
Susanne Mentzer, Mother of Yueyang
Michelle DeYoung, Shaman
Plácido Domingo, Emperor Qin
Paul Groves, Gao Lianli
Hao Jiang Tian, Gen. Wang Jong
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