OUROBOROUS TRILOGY
OUROBOROS is the ancient Greek word denoting the tail-devouring snake.
It represents the cycle of birth-death-rebirth, for as the snake eats itself it dies; yet its own body provides sustenance for its rebirth. In Ouroboros Trilogy, this ever moving circle is depicted in our logo shown above – the Ouroboros is chasing its tail in a clockwise direction; the three operas comprising the Trilogy also move in a clockwise direction. Hence, we can start the Trilogy with any one of Naga, Madame White Snake or Gilgamesh.
Naga by Scott Wheeler, Gilgamesh by Paola Prestini, and Madame White Snake by Zhou Long.
Commissioned by White Snake Projects and Beth Morrison projects.
Imaginative and often dazzlingly three-dimensional…combines delicacy, lyricism, and power with a patina of exoticism
Conceived as a kind of mythic Chinese “Ring”…ingenious and often beautiful
Creative Team
CO-CREATORS — CERISE LIM JACOBS & CHARLES M. JACOBS
COMPOSERS — SCOTT WHEELER AND PAOLA PRESTINI
COMPOSER — SCOTT WHEELER
COMPOSER — PAOLA PRESTINI
LIBRETTIST — CERISE LIM JACOBS
DIRECTOR & DESIGN — MICHAEL COUNTS
CONDUCTORS — LAN SHUI & CAROLYN KUAN
ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR — LIDIYA YANKOVSKAYA
DRAMATURGE — CORI ELLISON