Spoleto Festival USApresents the world premiere of Huang Ruo and Jennifer Wen Ma’s Paradise Interrupted, an arresting new opera marrying Chinese tradition dating from the Ming Dynasty with contemporary Western idioms. Artist Jennifer Wen Ma first got the idea for Paradise Interrupted while doing a contemporary art installation in Beijing. Jennifer, who is best known to global audiences for her work on the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, also directed and designed Paradise Interrupted for Spoleto USA.