Tan Dun: Ghost Opera

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{{Infobox album

| name = Tan Dun: Ghost Opera

| type = studio

| artist = Kronos Quartet and Wu Man

| cover = Kronos Quartet Ghost Opera cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{start date text|14 March 1997}}

| recorded = January 1996

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = contemporary classical

| length =

| label = Nonesuch (#79445)

| producer = Judith Sherman

| prev_title = Osvaldo Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind

| prev_year = 1997

| next_title = Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ)

| next_year = 1997

}}

Tan Dun: Ghost Opera is an album by the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man. The album contains five compositions by Chinese composer Tan Dun written in 1994{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/music/ta-duns-ghost-opera-is-fresh-and-hauntingly-memorable/article1883713/|title=Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera is fresh and hauntingly memorable – The Globe and Mail|last=Winters|first=Ken|date=26 January 2011|work=The Globe and Mail|accessdate=26 March 2012}} for string quartet and pipa.{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/12714890.html?dids=12714890:12714890&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+29%2C+1997&author=Mark+Swed&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=PERFORMING+ARTS%3B+COMMENTARY%3B+A+Sound+as+Magnetic+as+Hong+Kong+Itself%3B+%27Symphony+1997%27+makes+the+colony%27s+story+universal+by+employing+musical+styles+from+around+the+world.&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730171341/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/12714890.html?dids=12714890:12714890&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+29,+1997&author=Mark+Swed&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=PERFORMING+ARTS;+COMMENTARY;+A+Sound+as+Magnetic+as+Hong+Kong+Itself;+'Symphony+1997'+makes+the+colony's+story+universal+by+employing+musical+styles+from+around+the+world.&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 30, 2012|title=A Sound as Magnetic as Hong Kong Itself; 'Symphony 1997' makes the colony's story universal by employing musical styles from around the world|last=Swed|first=Mark|date=29 June 1997|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=26 March 2012}} {{As of|2011}}, the composition was still on the Quartet's program.{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/ghost-opera--a-chinese-home-20110113-19pwy.html?skin=text-only|title=Kronos Quartet – Ghost Opera & A Chinese Home|last=McCallum|first=Peter|date=14 January 2011|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=26 March 2012}}