With singular bravura, Lara Glenum retells the Brothers Grimm Snow White as a rollicking exploration of a mother-daughter relationship that waxes murderous. In this darkly funny chamber opera, a teenaged Snow White and an Evil Kween trade deadly ripostes, locked in a brutal struggle for survival. Only one of them can be “the fairest of them all” and command the blessing of patriarchy and the legitimacy of the throne. The Janus-faced mirror ensorcels, Prince Harming starts riots, and the Dwarves are a cyber-militia on the payroll of the crown. With perverse wit and dazzling imagination, SNOW probes the recesses of gender-based trauma, subverting cultural norms surrounding femme sexuality.
