Author Archives: Rachel Sturm
Thanks for Celebrating with us 🥰
Dear Friends of White Snake Projects: We are still heady from the gorgeous performances of Let’s Celebrate!, at WGBH’s Calderwood Studio. What a show! It was an occasion of many firsts for us – first time performing in a TV studio before a live studio audience, first time streaming live…
Cerise Jacobs on All Things Considered
Founding artist director of White Snake Projects and opera-maker Cerise Jacobs was featured on GBH’s All Things Considered this week with host Arun Rath. “What we want to do is to celebrate some of these diverse holiday traditions and introduce them to our neighbors and our friends and to…
I Am A Dreamer Gets Pittsburgh Premiere
I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams is back! YAY! It’s opening in Pittsburgh October 14-16 and I cannot wait to see it again. Produced by Resonance Works and conducted by Dreamer conductor, Maria Sensi Sellner, it’s just as relevant…
We Did It!
Dear Friends of White Snake Projects: We did it! We completed our three performance run of Cosmic Cowboy with no casualties to Covid-19 (thank you Sumerian gods, our Covid Health Liaison, Stephen Jackson, and our team who followed all the protocols). We only had to struggle, as always with our…
Q&A with Tian Hui Ng
For Tian Hui Ng, going digital has meant rethinking everything he knows about conducting. Find out how the Music Director of “Alice in the Pandemic” changed his techniques to bring Jorge Sosa’s music and Cerise Lim Jacobs’s libretto to life online. How has your work as…