Works & Process is set to present The Metropolitan Opera: John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra.” The presentation is set for April 28, 2025, at the Guggenheim New York in the Peter B. Lewis Theater. Ahead of this historic premiere, Met General Manager Peter Gelb will moderate a discussion with director Elkhanah Pulitzer, set designer Mimi Lien, and choreographer Annie-B Parson. {…}
Works & Process and Experiments in Opera are set to present “Custom of the Coast” by Kamala Sankaram and Paul Muldoon. The event will take place on Feb. 9, 2025, at the National Sawdust. The evening will showcase a first look at a new opera intercutting the life stories of an eighteenth-century Irish pirate who was sentenced to death and {…}
Works & Process at the Guggenheim is set to present “Champion,” an opera by Terence Blanchard and Michael Cristofer on March 20, 2023. The event will feature performances by members of the cast and a moderated discussion about the work’s forthcoming company premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. Met General Manager Peter Gelb will moderate a discussion with the creative team, {…}
(Credit: Paola Kudacki / Met Opera) Works & Process has announced its fall 2022 season presenting a series of programs at the Guggenheim Museum and expanding offerings to Gibney Center, Lincoln Center, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in partnership with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. For this article, we will focus on the operatic selections {…}
“Works & Process,” the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, has announced the spring 2022 season. Here is a look at the operatic workshops that the Guggenheim will offer. The Washington National Opera will present “Written in Stone” with Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang, and Kamala Sankaram and A.M. Homes. The work is inspired by iconic monuments in Washington, {…}
(Photo: Paola Kudacki) Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum in New York continues its fall 2021 season with the Metropolitan Opera on Nov. 1 with a 60-minute inside look at composer Matthew Aucoin and librettist Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice.” The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Orpheus uses the power of music to save his beloved Eurydice from {…}
The Works & Process series will continue with Lincoln Center Theater’s “Intimate Apparel” by Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage with Bartlett Sher. The upcoming discussion will go behind the scenes of the new chamber opera based on Lynn Nottage’s popular play “Intimate Apparel,” with music by Ricky Ian Gordon and a libretto by the playwright and directed by Bartlett {…}
(Credit: Matthew Placek) The Works & Process is set to present an Opening Night Cabaret featuring countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo to kick of the Spring 2020 Works and Process Season on Jan. 6, 2020. For the opening night cabaret, Costanzo is set to go back to his roots before he was an opera singer. Costanzo will perform cabaret from when {…}
The Works & Process, the Performing Arts Series at the Guggenheim has announced its Spring 2020 Season. For this article we will only focus on the operatic works and process sessions. The season will open with Opening Night Cabaret with Anthony Roth Costanzo. The session will focus on Costanzo’s career before he was an opera singer. For one night only, {…}