Echoes of Bi-Sotoon is a new opera by Cultureland Opera Collective. It’s in nine scenes based on the legends and the iconography of the Bi-Sotoon mountain; an important cultural site and transportation route in Khermanshah province in present day Iran.  It includes music by seven BIPOC composers[1] co-ordinated by artistic director Afarin Mansouri.  It premiered at Arrayspace on Thursday evening.

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