This fall, Maria will conduct the world premiere of I am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams, an opera by composer Jorge Sosa and creator and librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs for White Snake Projects.

It is the story of an undocumented Mexican immigrant, Rosa, a “dreamer” who is waiting in jail before being deported, and the relationship she develops with her court-appointed attorney Singa, an ethnically Chinese immigrant from Indonesia. The cast includes sopranos Helen Zhibing Huang, Kirsten Chambers, mezzo-soprano Carla López-Speziale, and a collaboration with the Boston Children’s Chorus.

Performances are on September 20-22, 2019 at the Emerson Paramount Theater, Robert J. Orchard Stage in Boston, MA. Read the press release