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Both Eyes Open

Performing Arts
In Person
Zellerbach Playhouse
2413 Bancroft Way Berkeley, California, United States of America

Date: Feb. 15, 2025 – Feb. 16, 2025



New Performance Traditions is proud to present a gripping new production of "Both Eyes Open", an experimental electroacoustic opera by Brooklyn-based composer Max Giteck Duykers and Berkeley-based librettist and playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, coming up on February 15 and 16, 2025 at Zellerbach Playhouse.

This harrowing tale documents the destruction and suffering wrought by the Japanese American World War Il incarceration on U.S. soil. Helmed by director Melissa Weaver and conductor David Milnes, Both Eyes Open features baritone Suchan Kim; soprano Zen Wu; tenor John Kun Park; Eco Ensemble and guest artist Joel Davel on marimba lumina; and the 45+ member UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus
under the direction of Wei Cheng.

Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 8pm & Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 2pm
Zellerbach Playhouse
2413 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Tickets: $30 Adults; $15 Students (with ID)
https://secure-tickets.berkeley.edu/26079
https://www.beo-opera.com


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