The Melbourne International Arts Festival presents the Australian premiere of the beloved contemporary Chinese composer Tan Dun’s "Buddha Passion". Co-commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, ...

All standing ovations at classical concerts are not equal. They can be spontaneous expressions of delight, dutiful exercises of obligation or nothing more than a reverse domino that begins when the ...

AS an opening gambit for new artistic director Nicola Benedetti’s first Edinburgh International Festival, which is posing the question Where Do We Go From Here? in publicity across the capital, the ...

This year’s Edinburgh International Festival got off to an impressive start, with the Scottish premiere of Chinese-American Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion, writes Ken Walton Did you know with a Digital ...

During the last six years, Academy Award-winning composer Tan Dun has traveled to the ancient city of Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, multiple times to study and document the Mogao Caves.

Tan Dun conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Edinburgh Festival Chorus in the Scottish premiere of his own Buddha Passion. One of the most versatile musicians in the world, Tan Dun ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion was probably inevitable. After his quasi-Buddhist Water Passion after St Matthew, what ...

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More than 1,500 years ago, a Buddhist monk carved a cave into rock at the edge of the Gobi desert in northwest China. Over time, as the story goes, more monks joined him in carving out their own ...

The quote “If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart” often attributed to Buddha, encapsulates a profound philosophy on the importance of commitment and passion in our endeavors. While the ...