Free libretto reading of the new opera JADE STAR HOTEL about one of the darkest moments for Chinese women in modern times.
https://www.aopopera.org/events/2022/8/6/jade-star-hotel-libretto-reading
This is my new opera, based on the COMFORT GIRL song cycle. Come be the part of the first audience members to hear how the piece is developing and shape the outcome. There will be audience Q&A afterward. This is a reading with actors only, and no music. There will be no music at this reading.
The American Opera Project presents a free libretto reading of the new opera JADE STAR HOTEL. Join Stephanie Chou (Creator & Composer) and Susan Kander (Librettist).as they hear for the first time the words of their searing new drama read aloud by a group of professional actors and learn their process for adding music in this rare peek into how operas are created. In English. Directed and moderated by AOP General Director Matt Gray.
AUGUST 6, 2022 at 4:00PM | FREE WITH REGISTRATION
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jade-star-hotel-libretto-reading-tickets-384443469767
COVID protocols: proof of vaccination is required for all who are eligible (currently ages 5+) to enter the building and masks are required regardless of vaccination status.
JADE STAR HOTEL is the story of a Chinese ‘comfort woman’, a cruel euphemism for the women who were abducted and forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army in the 1930s and ‘40s. In 1939, sixteen-year-old Lian is kidnapped by Japanese soldiers from her own wedding in a rural village in Manchuria and kept at a military ‘comfort station’ with other women. Though she survives, she is rejected by her family as a “cursed one,” and relegated to the edges of society. Sixty-five years later, a letter arrives from America to the modest apartment she shares with her daughter and granddaughter, causing Old Lian to finally share her story with her only family. JADE STAR HOTEL is a tribute to the more than 200,000 comfort women, and to their courage in finally telling their stories. www.aopopera.org/jade-star-hotel