The Savage Land (Ã¥ÂÂé Yuanye) is a 1987 Chinese-language western-style opera by composer Jin Xiang to a libretto by Wan Fang (ä¸Âæ¹ born 1952) after her own father Cao Yu's 1937 play The Wilderness (also Ã¥ÂÂé Yuanye). It was performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington in 1992, in 1997 at the in Saarbrücken under the baton of You-Sheng Lin, then again in Vancouver in 1998. Shenzhen Youth Opera presented Jin Xiang's work in 2016.