NEW YORK, April 15, 2023 — Opera singer and composer Qian Yi performs an excerpt of the Infernal Judgment from The Peony Pavilion during the symposium To Hell and Back. Yi is accompanied by traditional Chinese lute player Guo Zhaoshun and percussionist and Wu Liang, percussionist and executive and managing director of the New York Chinese Opera Society. (16 min., 21 sec.)

To Hell and Back is an interdisciplinary symposium that explores artistic expressions of the afterlife across religious traditions in Asia, presented in conjunction with the Asia Society Museum's exhibition Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds.