Music and Time Annotation << Back Staging Tang Jianping's Opera the Dawns Here Are Quiet: Dialogues in Time and Space Liang Lanyu This article presents for the fi rst time one of the most modern theatrical and musical projects, implemented at the National Grand Theatre of Beijing exactly ten years ago – in 2015. The author examines the opera “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” by Tang Jianping in a broad multidimensional context, allowing us to discuss a fairly coherent system of dialogical intersections: history and modernity, music, literature and cinema, as well as a number of traditions signifi cant for Chinese and Russian artistic culture. Keywords: Chinese opera, composer Tang Jianping, “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”, collective creative project, Valery Gergiev. DOI: 10.25791/music.4.2025.1355 Pp. 37-44.