Cerise Jacobs’ activist opera company, White Snake Projects, is set to host three online events starting on March 30. The projects lead up to the premiere of a new virtual opera, “Death by Life.” The new opera examines the intersection of systemic racism and mass incarceration and was conceived as a monument of support for Black Lives Matter. The events {…}
Librettist and producer Cerise Jacobs, together with her company, White Snake Projects, have created a virtual opera called “Death By Life,” in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The work, which is set to premiere digitally on May 20, 2021, explores systemic racism and the mass imprisonment of blacks. The opera features music by five Black composers including Jacinth {…}
With the coronavirus forcing companies worldwide to revise their fall programming, creator and librettist Cerise Jacobs of the White Snake Projects opera company will be presenting a new online opera, titled “Alice in the Pandemic.” The upcoming work follows a young nurse as tries to find her sick mother in a world that has changed drastically. For this work, Jacobs {…}
(Credit: James Daniel/ Christian Steiner) Prolific librettist Cerise Jacobs is teaming up with composer Elena Ruehr for the new opera “Cosmic Cowboy,” which is set to world premiere this fall. The opera, which blends ancient history and fantasy to focus on themes of colonization, is inspired by the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing at Plymouth Rock a well as {…}
Cerise Jacobs and Julian Wahner’s opera “REV. 23” is set to make its New York premiere at the Prototype Festival. “REV. 23,” which had its world premiere in Boston in 2017, adds a satirical twist to an imagined extra chapter in the biblical Book of Revelation. The new production will be conducted by Daniela Candillari and will star soprano Colleen {…}
On Sept. 20, 2019, Cerise Jacobs and Jorge Sosa’s’ latest opera “I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams” will make its world premiere. The new work will make its world premiere at the Robert J. Orchard Stage of Boston’s Emerson Paramount Theater with a cast of various ethnicity. The cast is set to include Carla López-Speziale, Helen Zhibing Huang, Kirsten {…}
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 {…}
Creator and librettist Cerise Jacobs will team up with Mexican-born composer Jorge Sosa to produce a new opera entitled “I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams.” The topical subject of this new work is immigration. The opera tells the story of Rosa, an undocumented immigrant, and the relationship she forms with ethnically-Chinese Indonesian immigrant Sanga, her court-appointed attorney, while {…}
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 {…}
How do you make a younger audience go to the opera? That was the question that always haunted writer Cerise Jacobs through the years as she wrote numerous librettos and operas. It always confounded her that her son never showed interest in the works she created. But it was ultimately this question that inspired her to make the first video {…}