The world premiere of Mary D. Watkins and Cerise Lim Jacobs’ opera, “Is This America?” is presented by White Snake Projects on Sept. 20. This new 90-minute fully-staged opera celebrates the life and legacy of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. “Is This America?” features mezzo-soprano Deborah Nansteel in the lead role, alongside bass-baritone Eliam Ramos-Silva, and Voice Boston Children’s {…}
Ryan Oldham’s “Dome & Giovanni” makes its world premiere in White Snake Projects’ second annual “Opera Through the Looking Glass” series. “Domme & Giovanni” is a contemporary retelling of Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni.” Liz Abram-Oldham and Cerise Lim Jacobs teamed together as co-librettists to write a modern adaptation that centers on the strengths of the female roles by flipping the {…}
White Snake Projects will present the seventh installment of its “Sing Out Strong” series, “Emancipated Voices,” featuring original works with texts by longtime Massachusetts residents and newly arrived immigrants. Scheduled for performances throughout March, “What Does Voting Mean To You?” was the prompt for composers in a Call for Entries in 2023. Composers were selected by a panel consisting of {…}
Activist performing arts company White Snake Projects is set to give two free community engagement events this winter season. The first is a Roxbury community showcase of local youth arts organizations in “Show Out Boston,” “a platform for Boston’s youth arts organizations to show up, show off and show out!” This is the second year that the company presents this {…}
Activist Opera Company, White Snake Projects has announced the second annual “Let’s Celebrate!” its opera series focused on diversity and intersectionality. The program is comprised of four 20-minute operas alongside traditional holiday works and stories that more closely mirror the demographics of the Boston area. Audiences will enjoy “My Little Coqui” by Iván Enrique Rodriguez, “Jo Dooba So Paar” by {…}
(Photo credit: Yvette Marie Dostatni/Chicago Puppet Studio) Activist opera company, White Snake Projects, is set to the world premiere of “MONKEY: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable” on Sep. 22-24, 2023. Per an official press statement issued by the company, composer Jorge Sosa and creator/librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs‘ “Monkey” is a family-friendly transmedia show featuring life-scaled Bunraku puppetry, Kung Fu, computer {…}
White Snake Projects (WSP) has announced its 2023-24 season, featuring life-size puppets, holiday celebrations, recent works from composers worldwide performed by local artists, a community jam, and a satirical reimagining of “Don Giovanni.” WSP will present composer Jorge Sosa and creator/librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs’ “Monkey: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable. This family-friendly opera blends Bunraku puppetry, CGI, and live performances. {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}
On May 20, 2022, Cerise Jacobs’ activist opera company, White Snake Projects, rolled out a Special Access Early Release of the company’s “Tutti Remote” software at OPERA America’s Opera Conference 2022 in Minneapolis. The software is meant to facilitate live performance from remote locations via internet, with high-quality audio synced to less than a millisecond, and is being offered for {…}
OPERA America has announced the recipients of $180,000 in Civic Practice Grants. The awards went to eight Professional Company Members that were selected by industry leaders from a pool of 38 applications. The grantees are Anchorage Opera, Baltimore Concert Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Opera Cultura (San Jose, CA), Opera Parallèle (San Francisco, CA), Opera Saratoga, and White Snake {…}