MADAME WHITE SNAKE

CREATIVE TEAM

Created by CERISE LIM JACOBS | Music ZHOU LONG

Direction and production design MICHAEL COUNTS | Conductor LAN SHUI

Video design S KATY TUCKER | Costume design ZANE PIHLSTROM

Lighting design YI ZHAO | Dramaturgy CORI ELLISON

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co-produced with White Snake Projects

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FEATURING

SUSANNAH BILLER, DONG-JIAN GONG, MICHAEL MANIACI, and PETER TANTSITS

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ABOUT

Based on an ancient Chinese folk tale, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning opera Madame White Snake is the story of a deadly white snake demon who gives up her immortal existence to assume human form in the pursuit of the most human of all emotions – love. She holds love dearly for one moment; and then love is lost forever. A powerful metaphor for what it means to be truly human, the myth has become an icon to those who have dared to dream.

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Support

Commissioned by Opera Boston and the Beijing Music Festival Foundation

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This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.