KT Wong Foundation Presents 'Semele' at BAM: Zhang Huan as Director

Zhang Huan's directorial debut 'Semele', presented by the Canadian Opera Company and co-produced by the KT Wong Foundation and Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie | de Munt, premieres at BAM, New York on March 4 and runs until March 10.
Here, Zhang Huan talks about his role as director. "In all honesty, I too do not understand opera, but I like doing things out of the ordinary. That is why I have continued to make art to this day. Frankly speaking, I never imagined I would have the chance to be director and set designer for a Western opera, particularly because the original opera was so foreign and distant to me. Even though I have done performance art for many years, it is a completely different category of performance. Looking back on my predestined affinity with theater, at times it may seem absurd but all at once it is still part of my destiny," says Zhang.