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Madame White Snake is an opera with music by Zhou Long and libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs, published by Oxford University Press.Awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music, it was premiered on Feb. 26, 2010, by Opera Boston at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.
The Legend of the White Snake, created by Leon Ko and Chris Shum. Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theater performed a modern dance interpretation of Madam White Snake in the 1970s. In 2010, an opera based on the legend, Madame White Snake, with music by Zhou Long and a libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs, premiered in a production by Opera Boston. [1]
The Legend of the White Snake is a Chinese legend centered around a romance between a man named Xu Xian and a female snake spirit named Bai Suzhen. It is counted as one of China's Four Great Folktales, the others being Lady Meng Jiang , Butterfly Lovers , and The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl .
Bai Suzhen is worshipped as a deity in Chinese folk religion, where she is known as Madam White Snake. [9] It is said that she and Xu Xian once practiced Chinese medicine and that believers came to them seeking healing and health advice. In Taoyuan City, Yangmei District, Taiwan, the White Snake Temple was built in 1991 and dedicated to her.
Opera premieres include The Sound of a Voice (American Repertory Theatre) and APPOMATTOX (San Francisco Opera) both by Philip Glass and Madame White Snake (Opera Boston, Beijing Music Festival) by Zhou Long (Pulitzer Prize Music 2010).
Los Angeles Opera opens its fall season with a production of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" that sets the story on a 1930s Hollywood film set.
Madame White Snake (opera) The Man and Men; Medea (Reimann) Moby-Dick (opera) N. New York Stories (opera) P. Pecan Summer; Il Postino (opera) Q. Queen of Knives; R.
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.