Event Title:

Organization:

  Music

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  10/16/2025

End Date:

  10/16/2025

Start Time:

  6:30 PM

End Time:

  9:00 PM

Event Info: 

  Mercury Soul's signature fusion of DJs, classical music and immersive visuals comes to the Asian Art Museum!
The evening will unfold with waves of DJ sets, opera arias, classical performance and music of traditional Chinese instruments that honor artistic traditions both ancient and new.

Sets by DJ Masonic (composer Mason Bates) and DJ Justin Reed (illmeasures Chicago) will be interspersed with works by Huang Ruo-composer of San Francisco Opera's upcoming The Monkey King-alongside music from Verdi, de Falla, prodigy Yangfan Xu and more. The Asian Art Museum's gorgeous architecture becomes a canvas for stunning immersive visual projections from Mark Johns in this one-night-only journey through centuries of artistic heritage.

Featuring arias by:
Mei Gui Zhang, Lead Soprano from SF Opera's The Monkey King
Olivier Zerouali, SF Opera Adler Fellow
Crystal Kim, SF Opera Chorus
Conducted by: Carolyn Kuan, Conductor for SF Opera's The Monkey King
With DJ sets by: DJ Masonic (Mason Bates) & DJ Justin Reed (illmeasures, Chicago)
And performances by: The Mercury Soul Octet pipa virtuoso Lu Liu, and percussionist Ben Paysen
Plus a conversation between composer Huang Ruo and composer Mason Bates

Thursday, October 16 6:30pm - 9:00pm
The Asian Art Museum: 200 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Tickets are $60.
All ages are welcome.

https://mercurysoul.com/asianartmuseum/

Location:

  Asian Art Museum

Room:

Address:

  200 Larkin Street

Phone:

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA