Naga is an Opera News Critics’ Choice!

I remember back in 2014 when I first met Scott Wheeler. We had lunch together to talk about a potential collaboration on a new opera, Naga (Sanskrit for “protector snake.”) I told Scott that Naga was instigated by guess who? Charles, of course, who kept asking how the White Snake came to be. Charles’s questions […]

My Next Opera Projects

Thank you for supporting “the most ambitious opera undertaking Boston has ever seen” (Berkshire Fine Arts)—the Ouroboros Trilogy—which premiered last year to great acclaim. I’m attaching a short trailer of the show for you to enjoy!

Zhulong

The “zhulong” or pig-dragon, a 6,000-year-old grave amulet made by the Hong Shan people in China, may be the precursor to the OUROBOROS.

Peony Song from Naga

So we part as we met in this garden of red