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This six-episode performance series explores and celebrates the music of Asian, Asian-American and Pacific Islanders, as well as works influenced by Asian culture. Part of the Butterfly Process, Boston Lyric Opera's community-wide initiative to reexamine the history and legacies of Madama Butterfly in a modern context, these moving films feature pieces chosen collectively by the artists, along with BLO Artistic Advisor Vimbayi Kaziboni and director Melanie Bacaling, a BLO Emerging Artist Alum. We invite you on this one-in-a-lifetime journey honoring cultural identity and rejoicing in what it means to belong.
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Part 1: But First May I Ask You?
This first part in this series includes interviews with Curator Vimbayi Kaziboni, Director Melanie Bacaling, and interviews and performances by Butterfly artists Nicholas LaGesse, Zach Borichevsky, Nina Yoshida Nelsen, and Jorgeandres Camargo, with musical selections from Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Ben...
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Part 2: How Many Petals Falling?
This second part in this series includes interviews and performances by artists Yulan Piao, Zaray Rodriguez, and Nina Yoshida Nelsen, with musical selections from Meng Hao-ran, Naresh Sohal, and Leo Delibes.
This six-episode performance series explores and celebrates the music of Asian, Asian-Am...
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Part 3: Don't You Recognize Me?
This third part in this series includes interviews and performances by Butterfly artists Jorgeandres Camargo, Levi Hernandez, and Yulan Piao, with musical selections from Nilo Alcala, Claude Debussy and Jack Perla.
This six-episode performance series explores and celebrates the music of Asian, A...
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Part 4: I Want to Live in the Capital of Non-Action
This fourth part in this series includes interviews with artists Nicholas LaGesse, Nina Yoshida Nelsen, Omar Najmi, and Yulan Piao, with musical selections from Kono Michi, Huang Ruo, and Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky.
This six-episode performance series explores and celebrates the music of Asian, Asian...
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Part 5: Longing for the Mountain
This fifth part in this series includes interviews and performances by Butterfly artists Zach Borichevsky, Zaray Rodridguez, Omar Najmi, and Yulan Piao, with musical selections from Anton Rubinstein, Robert Wright and George Forrest, and Choi Young Sup.
This six-episode performance series explor...
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Part 6: Awakening
The final part in this series includes interviews interviews and performances by Butterfly artists Levi Hernandez, Omar Najmi, Nina Yoshida Nelsen, Yulan Piao, and Zaray Rodriguez, with musical selections from Li Bai, Gustav Mahler, and Toru Takemitsu.
This six-episode performance series explore...
