My latest mini opera, “Black Blood” will be premiered at the Paprika Festival in Toronto on March 4, 2012. The librettist, Norman Yeung and I wrote “Black Blood” as part of Tapestry New Opera’s “Composer-Librettist Laboratory” workshop and turned it into something longer than our other assignments. Tickets are available at the Tarragon Theatre Box Office.
Black Blood Synopsis:
Sun beats hot, crops wither dead, water runs poisonous. War. A dying Father and Son drink their last bowl of water. They need oil to run their machines to purify the polluted water, to grow crops, to stay alive. A hideous Creature from the enemy nation approaches them with a gruesome offer.
“Black Blood”, a short opera, is an allegory of our current wars over resources, giving voice to the victims who are innocent, who do not wish to fight, yet who suffer the most.