Theatre Survey

Critical Stages: Edited by Patrick Anderson

THE PUBLIC LIFE OF OPERA: A CONVERSATION WITH DAPHNE LEI AND MARY ZIMMERMAN

Section Editor's Note: For this edition of “Critical Stages,” appearing within the journal's special issue on opera, I posed three sets of questions to Daphne Lei, author of Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific (2006), and Tony Award–winning director Mary Zimmerman, cocreator with Philip Glass and Arnold Weinstein of the opera Galileo Galilei (2002).