I was quite surprised when I was randomly web hopping again when I saw this news, that Opera Boston, a professional opera company in US, is going to stage "Madam White Snake" next year. I'm very curious as to how this opera is going to be like, because after all, Western opera focuses more on singing, and it's hard to imagine how they are going to portray the different mystical and fighting scenes. Will they include acrobatic choreography in this production, or will they replace all these scenes with singing? So far there hasn't been much news on these over the net, but I understand that the production team is trying very hard not to let this production be biased towards the Asian or Western community.
This production is going to be staged in Beijing as well, and there is also plans for it to go to Hangzhou, the "birth place" of this legend. I'm looking forward for it to come to Singapore; we just have too few opera performances despite having an Esplanade which was supposedly built for opera performances!
PS: The role of Xiao Qing, the green snake, is performed by a famous male soprano! This is interesting, because other than the Chuanju version (non-human persona), I've never, ever seen a male actor taking on this role before.
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