Friday, January 13, 2017, 8:00pm
The Town Hall
|123 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Tickets: $25 General Admission, $10 OPERA America Members
Rated R for Rat
By Wang Jie (composer and librettist)
In this original story, a zodiac goddess experiences humans’ soulful music for the first time, and she forsakes her place in the heavens to join her divine musical power with that of men.
Charlotte Salomon: Der Tod und Die Malerin (Death and the Painter)
By Michelle DiBucci (composer)
This work is based on Life? Or Theater?, a series of 769 paintings by the German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, who was killed during the Holocaust.
Machine
By Rene Orth (composer) and Jason Kim (librettist)
Machine follows the chilling story of an Asian-American scientist who elects to plant a chip in her head and become the world’s first perfect, emotionless human.
Before the Night Sky
By Randall Eng (composer) and Donna Di Novelli (librettist)
Twins separated and united create the structure of this updated Greek myth that reimagines the Gemini twins, Castor and Pollux, and their overlooked sisters, Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.
The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare
By Julian Grant (composer) and Mark Campbell (librettist)
In the late 1820s, Edinburgh’s anatomy schools experienced a severe shortage of cadavers to study, so Burke and Hare served this niche market by murdering the disenfranchised and selling their corpses. In this opera, the victims of the anatomy murders finally have their say, from beyond.