BAKUNAWA: Opera of the Seven Moons (Micaela Tobin) Los Angeles 2021 Maria Maea, Chris Florendo
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: BAKUNAWA: Opera of the Seven Moons
- Composer: Micaela Tobin
- Libretto: Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: REDCAT, Los Angeles, California
- Recorded: 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Micaela Tobin, Maria Maea, Chris Florendo, Sharon Chohi Kim, Mark Golamco, Diane Valencia, Nicanor Evangelista Jr.
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Choreographer: Chris Florendo
- Stage Director:
- Stage Designer: Maria Maea
- Costume Designer: Mieko Romming
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Micaela Tobin
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Bakunawa rose from the ocean, so mesmerized by the light of the seven moons that she devoured them all. Dismayed, the Community emerged, making noise and begging Bakunawa to give them back the moonlight. Bakunawa agreed and released the seventh moon back into the sky, creating the first lunar eclipse.
Prologue
Moon Aria
The Devouring
Community
Burden’s Fall
Palayain
Love Letters
Write a love letter.
To yourself. To someone you miss. To your community. To a stranger.
Write a love letter to a time, a place, a memory.
Write a love letter to our collective grief, to our collective joy, to our collective unconscious.
Write a love letter to your ancestors, to your future ancestors.
Write a love letter to your chosen family.
Write a love letter to someone you’ve forgotten, to someone unseen.
Write a love letter to someone you haven’t met yet, to the you you haven’t met yet.
Write a love letter to the person you’re leaving behind.
Write a love letter to the person you want to be.
“I dedicate this project to my Grandparents—to the hope they carried with them across the ocean, and to what they had to leave behind. May this film serve as a bridge for my family, and to anyone who feels lost in the diaspora—keep searching for the reflections of your Ancestors. They are here.”
—Micaela Tobin