Tan Dun to make Met opera debut

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HE collected folk songs in villages in his native China, then planted rice. Later, he played music on the streets of New York to buy food. Now, composer Tan Dun is making his Metropolitan Opera debut in New York. “The First Emperor,” starring Placido Domingo in the title role of a production with a reported cost of up to US$3 million, has its world premiere tonight.