01/18/2015 2pm
Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing 11354

“Beloved Prey & Moon Princess Song Cycle”

Join us in a preview of “Beloved Prey,” a portable opera in English with a Japanese koto. A lioness adopts a baby antelope; a mother antelope seeks 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 and directing by Kento Iwasaki. Performances by Sishel Claverie (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.

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