Experiments in Opera announces its 2025 Winter/Spring season. Soprano Anchal Dhir and mezzo-soprano Rocky Duval give the workshop performance of Kamala Sankaram and Paul Muldoon’s “Custom of the Coast.” They are accompanied by the Flux Quartet. “Custom of the Coast” is co-presented by Works & Process and National Sawdust, and is slated for premiere at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in August 2025. {…}
Experiments in Opera is set to give four programs during its spring 2024 season. Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo takes on the title role in the workshop performance of “Nikola Tesla as summoned by the Honorable Spirits of the Grand Gotham Hotel.” Jennifer Zetlan sings the role of Katharine Johnson, with Amanda Lynn Bottoms as Sissieretta Jones/Djuka Tesla, Timothy Stoddard as {…}
Works & Process is set to present “Experiments in Opera: The Lives of Nikola Tesla as summoned by the Honorable Spirits of the Grand Gotham Hotel.” The workshop, set for April 15, 2024, at the Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater in New York City, will feature music and words by Phil Kline and a story concept by Phil Kline and {…}
Works & Process is set to present “Washington National Opera: Turandot” on Feb. 25, 2024 at 7 p.m. at Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater in New York City. The event will provide an introduction for Washington National Opera’s new production of the Puccini classic with a new ending by composer Christopher Tin and playwright and screenwriter Susan Soon He Stanton. {…}
Works & Process has announced its 2023 season of programming, with performances at the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center, and the New York Library for the Performing Arts. Among the performances are “The Factotum,” presented by Lyric Opera of Chicago and featuring Grammy-nominated baritone Will Liverman. Inspired by “The Barber of Seville” and set in a Black barbershop in Chicago, highlights {…}
(Credit: Marylene Mey) Works & Process at the Guggenheim has announced that it will be granting $40,000 in commissioning funds to major artists that have featured in its programs over the years via Virtual Commissions. The aim of the Virtual Commissions program is for the artists to create new works, all less that five minutes in length, that will be {…}
The Guggenheim Museum has announced its Works & Process series for the fall season, which will include two new operas. The series will include John Adams’s opera “Girls of the Golden West,” which is slated to have its world premiere this fall in San Francisco. New Yorkers will have a chance to preview the work on Sept. 21 and 22, 2017, {…}