West Edge Opera has announced its SNAPSHOT 2023 lineup scheduled for March 18 and 19 at The Hillside Club in Berkeley and the Taube Atrium Theater in San Francisco, respectively.

Among the works programmed are Luna Pearl Woolf’s and Andrea Michelle Stolowitz’s “The Limit of the Sun,” a work that portrays “the complex relationship among a kidnapped journalist, the journalist’s young minder, the federal agent assigned to the case, and the journalist’s mother. The opera examines questions of justice on a global scale.”

Audiences will also see Bryon Au Yong and Christopher Chen’s “Port City,” a work set in a post-pandemic, post-tech San Francisco that features neurological systems as memory maps.

Also on the program is Shuying Li and Julian Crouch’s “When Purple Mountains Burn,” a work that explores the Nanjing Massacre and how it damaged the lives of two observers.

The final piece to be performed will be Beth Ratay and John Glore’s “The Morpheus Quartet,” an opera that “reveals hidden dreams transpiring simultaneously in the minds of the string players,” each played by a coloratura soprano, a lyric soprano, a countertenor, and a baritone.

‘The settings of each of this year’s selections is particularly gripping, even as their worlds are wonderfully different. It will be a great pleasure to present this variety of new kernel ideas in chamber form,” said West Edge Opera Music Director Jonathan Khuner in an official press statement.