Creator and librettist Cerise Jacobs’  first opera “Madame White Snake” is set to make its Hong Premiere.

The opera, which had its premiere in Boston in 2010 and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for music the following year for the score by composer Zhou Long, is set to appear at the 47th Hong Kong Arts Festival in March 2019.

The Hong Kong premiere of “Madame White Snake” will mark the fifth production of Jacobs’ celebrated operatic debut, which is based on one of China’s most well-known folktales, the story of a demon in pursuit of love.

The score blends Chinese and Western elements and was produced the same year by the co-commissioning Beijing Music Festival, followed by a performance in Taiwan in 2013. It was later revived in Boston in 2016 as the first opera in Jacobs’s complete Ouroboros trilogy.

“Madame White Snake” is set to star Soprano Susannah Biller, male soprano Michael Maniaci, bass Dong-Jian Gong, and tenor Peter Tantsits. The Hong Kong premiere will also feature the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Arts Festival Chorus and Hong Kong Children’s Choir, and will be conducted by Lan Shui.

Performances are set for March 8 and 9, 2019.