BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS (trailer) opera by Huang Ruo
ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE & BETH MORRISON PROJECTS present
In Association with PROTOTYPE & Trinity Church of Wall Street

Huang Ruo, Composer & Librettist
Basil Twist, Director & Designer
Featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Conducted by Huang Ruo

MARCH 15–20
https://stannswarehouse.org/show/book...

A daring new work by composer Huang Ruo and puppeteer/designer/director Basil Twist, Book of Mountains and Seas is a modern take on ancient Chinese creation myths, first transcribed in the 4th Century BC, yet strikingly relevant to our current struggle with climate change. An ensemble of massive puppets, as fanciful as they are terrifying, and the chorus of Ars Nova Copenhagen challenge us through music and stunning visual tableaux to consider the power of the natural world and our vital, yet tenuous, relationship to it.

Basil Twist is a third-generation puppeteer and object theater artist, renowned globally for his visionary adaptations of opera, dance, and theater. Chinese-born American composer Huang Ruo has been called “one of the world’s leading young composers” and was formerly Composer in Residence at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Runtime: 75 minutes, no intermission