WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP - A First Ever Khmer Rock Opera
WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP
A First Ever Khmer Rock Opera
Sam, a refugee from the Khmer Rouge genocide, leaves America and returns to his homeland, Cambodia. Committed to finding his roots in his native culture, he unexpectedly falls in love with Bopha, a Cambodian pop-star. The music fuses traditional Cambodian music with Western rock and rap. The opera will be sung in English and Khmer, with subtitles in both languages.
Music by Him Sophy
Libretto by Catherine Filloux
Produced By John Burt in association with
Amrita Performing Arts
An original commission of Cambodian Living Arts,
a project of World Education
Don’t miss this spectacle of Khmer and American music theater that celebrates Cambodian arts and cultural heritage in a world class performance of the first ever Khmer Rock Opera.
WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP is a modern Khmer love story, merging local traditions with Western musical structures.
At the CHENLA THEATER, for the following nights only:
WORLD PREMIERE VIP PERFORMANCE – 28 November 2008
6:00pm Champagne Arrival
6:30pm Performance
8:30-9:30pm Cocktail Reception
Tickets: GOLD Circle $250 SILVER Circle $150 BRONZE Circle $100
GALA NIGHT PERFORMANCE – 29 November 2008
6:30pm Performance
8:30-9:30pm Cocktail Reception
Tickets: Exclusive Seating $75 Premium Seating $50 General Seating $25
GENERAL ADMISSONS PERFORMANCES: 5, 6, 7 December 2008
6:30 Performance
Tickets: Exclusive Seating $12 Premium Seating $5 General Seating $2
TICKETS RESERVATION HOTLINE: +855 (0) 23 220 424, 017 603 408
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.whereelephantsweep.net/
About the Author
khmerbird has written 588 stories on this site.
khmerbird writes sometime when he has free time, he is known as an independent writer and also a dynamic blogger. His short stories received from time to time the Nou Hach Journal annual awards: KATUOCH (2005) and THE MAN ON THE ROOF (2007). He has expressed the need for Cambodian fiction to move beyond the Pol Pot era, recognized by Geoff Ryman, the author of THE KING’S LAST SONG. Khmerbird says of his fictions: "It's like an update. I want to put next to the books about the genocide, real-time stories from my country. That is my first mission in writing stories."
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