Sunday, January 18, 2015, 2:00 PM
Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11354
A preview of “Beloved Prey,” a portable opera in English with a Japanese koto. Features a 15-feet foldable set. About a lioness who adopts a baby antelope and a mother antelope who musters the courage to rescue her child. Based on real stories about lionesses adopting prey animals after losing their child, one such instance chronicled by a documentary “Heart of the Lioness.”Set by Alexis Kandra, costumes and libretto by Cris Ryan, Music by Kento Iwasaki. Performances by Melissa Serluco (lioness role), Joy Tamayo (calf role), Hirona Amamiya (doe role and violin), Kento Iwasaki (koto), and Maiko Hosoda (perc.).
Also featured on the concert is Iwasaki and Ryan’s “Moon Princess Song Cycle,” performed by soprano-piano duo Sara Heaton and Akiko Sasaki. The song cycle is inspired by the Japanese folk tale “Kaguya Hime,” about a moon princess reborn in a bamboo forest who is fated to be taken from her adoptive parents by the people of the moon.
Tickets: FREE
For more information about the event, please visit:
http://www.flushingtownhall.org