You must have read or heard of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. The 【小题1】 between them is very painful. But can you imagine the two singing opera in English instead of speaking poetic Chinese? Jia and Lin are two 【小题2】 from the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber（《红楼梦》）, which was considered to be 【小题3】 by Cao Xueqin, a novel master. Now the book has been 【小题4】 into an English-language opera. The opera was first 【小题5】 in September, 2016 in San Francisco, U S. In 2017, it came to Beijing, Changsha and Wuhan.

The book has 120 chapters (章) and several hundred characters. But opera writer David Henry Hwang cut down the 【小题6】 of main characters to just seven. Hwang, a Chinese-American, focused 【小题7】 the story between Jia and Lin and tried to write a heartbreaking tragedy (悲剧) that everyone would understand.

The art director Timmy Yip compared Lin to water and gave her a light green costume (服装). When Lin shows up on stage, there is usually water around 【小题8】 on the stage.

The creators 【小题9】 it to be a meaningful job to introduce a Chinese classic to Western audience (观众).