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White Snakes Projects to Present American Premiere of Davids’ ‘Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People’

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White Snake Projects is set to present the American premiere of Brent Michael Davids’s “Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People” on Nov. 14, 2026, at Jordan Hall, following the work’s world premiere by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in London on May 17. The project is co-commissioned by White Snake Projects and The Lenape Center with support {…}

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Climate Change at the Core of White Snakes Projects 2025 Season

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White Snakes Projects has announced its 2025 Climate Change season. “Our passion for the arts and our love for the planet are not mutually exclusive. For several years, White Snake Projects has been implementing environmentally friendlier practices off stage and beyond. This year, we are using opera’s onstage platform to have an amplified conversation with audiences to better educate, advocate, {…}

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White Snakes Projects Announces Three Operas Included in 2024 Edition of ‘Let’s Celebrate’

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White Snakes Projects will present its third annual “Let’s Celebrate” on Dec. 14-15, 2024. The showcase features three 20-minute operas highlighting family and holiday traditions from various global cultures. “Thirty Angels,” a musical celebration of Navruz—the Uzbek and Persian New Year—was composed by Uzbekistan-born pianist Liliya Ugay, whose heritage includes Korean and Tatar roots. The opera narrates the story of {…}

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White Snakes Projects Unveils Fall 2024 Season

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White Snakes Projects has unveiled a series of performances and community events for fall 2024. First up is “Talks With Tunes” at the Boston Public Library. The concert series will feature panels with experts on a wide range of topics including “Voting as Freedom,” “A History of Protest Songs,” and “Recreating Fannie Lou Hamer’s World,” among others. Performance Dates: Sept. 4 {…}

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White Snakes Projects to Present ‘Let’s Celebrate’

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White Snakes Projects is set to present “Let’s Celebrate” on Dec. 10, 2022. The showcase will feature four short operas aimed at shining a spotlight on unique holiday traditions First up will be “A Braided Light” by Paul Richards and Wendy Steiner; the opera explores the Jewish Havdalah Ceremony. With “Firecrackers” by Guang Yang and Paula Cizmar, audiences will learn {…}

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White Snakes Projects to Present ‘Cosmic Cowboy’

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White Snake Projects is set to present “Cosmic Cowboy,” a new work of poli sci-fi that blends ancient history and fantasy to talk about the subject of colonization. Cerise Jacobs’s inspirations were the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock and the historic landing of the space probe Philae on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The work, which was {…}

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White Snakes Projects Announces 2022-23 Season

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White Snakes Projects has announced its 2022-23 season. The season kicks off with the world premiere of Elena Ruehr’s “Cosmic Cowboy,” a sci-fi opera that explores the subject of colonization through ancient history and fantasy. The opera will star Daniel Moody, Carami Hilaire, Tyler Putnam, Charles Cotta, and John Paul Huckle. Sam Helfrich directs and Tian Hui Ng conducts the {…}

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White Snakes Projects Announces ‘SING OUT STRONG’ & ‘I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams’

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The White Snakes Projects has announced that it will launch the “SING OUT STRONG” initiative with the intent of cultivating new songs that will serve as complements to the company’s operas. It’s first edition will culminate in the world premiere of “I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams” in late September 2019. This first edition, entitled, “Immigrant Voices,” will {…}

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White Snakes Project to Speak Against Anti-Asian Racism with ‘Fractured Mosaics’

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On March 30, 2023, Cerise Jacobs and White Snake Projects will present the world premiere of “Fractured Mosaics,” an operatic response to anti-Asian racism. Comprised of four scenes, “Fractured Mosaics” features music by Nilo Alcala, Randall Eng, Benjamin Kono, and Liliya Ugay, with texts from their respective writing partners, Deepalis Gupta, Monique Truong, Cerise Lim Jacobs, and Sokunthary Svay. Per {…}