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, in the New York premiere of his cabaret, Costanzo will revisit his childhood, drawing on the leading ladies, crooners, and icons that helped form him. The evening was developed with the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, on the occasion of Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O19 and will be directed by John Jarboe. Musical arrangements will be by Heath Allen with scenic design by Machine Dazzle.

Performance Date: Jan. 6, 2020

The Metropolitan Opera will present a discussion with Peter Gelb, David McVicar, Harry Bicket, and Joyce DiDonato about its upcoming production of Handel’s “Agrippina.” There will also be musical highlights performed.

Performance Date: Jan 20, 2020

Lincoln Center Theater will present a preview of “Intimate Apparel” by Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage. Director Bartlett Sher lead a discussion about the first produced by Lincoln Center Theater and by LCT and the Metropolitan Opera as part of the Met/LCT New Works Program, which is dedicated to developing new opera and music theater works.

The evening will go behind the scenes of a new chamber opera based on Lynn Nottage’s popular play. The discussion will take place before the opera’s wolrd premiere on Feb. 27, 2020.

Performance Date: Feb 9, 2020

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis will present a discussion panel about “Awakenings” by Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman with Roberto Kalb and James Robinson. The discussion will also include performances by original cast members Joyce El-Khoury, Paul Groves, Jarrett Logan Porter, and David Portillo.

Performance Date: April 5, 2020

All works and process series sessions will happen at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.