Marco Polo is an opera by the Chinese-born composer Tan Dun set to an English libretto by Paul Griffiths.
The work is scored for vocal soloists, a chorus of 20 and a large orchestra of both modern and medieval European instruments as well as instruments from the cultures that Marco Polo passed through on his journey, including sitar, pipa, sheng, tabla and Tibetan horns and bells.
[3] Marco Polo began as a commission by the Edinburgh International Festival in the late 1980s.
Marco Polo was first seen in the UK in November 1998 in a concert performance at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Its most recent revival was a November 2008 production at De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam