Hearing the Call Of the West, and Hanging It Up

Full story: The Washington Post

BEIJING -- Dai Yuqiang, the most famous opera singer in China, sits at the dining room table at a friend's home here and laughs like a small boy. 'Before Pavarotti died,' he says, 'I was considered Number Four.' Another infectious laugh, to defuse the force of a tenor's ego. Dai, 46, is a superstar in China. He gives around 200 concerts a year -- 'five on the last lunar new year,' he says in broken English. His handsome, rubbery face can look, in photos, like a little girl's -- pouty lips, smooth skin, and oh, that mullet -- or, on the cover of his debut solo recording released in 2004, like a matinee idol.

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