Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: concert:nova + The Mitchells
Chamber ensemble concert:nova and Cincinnati indie rock band The Mitchells draw inspiration from and re-imagine two song-cycles of Franz Schubert, The Miller’s Daughter and Winter Journey, exploring infatuation, obsession, and alienation in a thrilling collaboration which crosses stylistic boundaries.
Monday, January 5 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Angel’s Bone | Prototype
Angel’s Bone is a new work of opera-theatre that follows the plight of two angels whose nostalgia for earthly delights has, mysteriously, brought them back to our world. They are found battered and bruised from their long journey by a man and his wife. Mr. and Mrs. X.E. set out to nurse the wounded angels back to health: they bathe them, wash the dirt from their nails…then lock them in a room and decide to exploit these magical beings for wealth and personal gains.
Tuesday, January 6, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, & 17 at 7:00 PM & January 9 at 3 PM
Tickets $25
3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
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The Light Within | Le Train Bleu
John Luther Adams
Flutist and composer Ransom Wilson brings his eclectic musical collective, Le Train Bleu, in this NS debut, featuring a program of works by John Luther Adams, Jacob TV, Huang Ruo, and Reena Esmail, as well as multimedia by Guillerma Laporta and live painting.
Tuesday, January 6 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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The Good Swimmer | Prototype
Part requiem, part lifesaving drill, The Good Swimmer is a new music-theatre piece set entirely on a surf beach. The piece translates the kinship relationships of a Greek tragedy to a family of lifeguards during the early days of the Vietnam War.
Wednesday, January 7 to 10 & January 12 to 17 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
HERE, 145 6th Avenue, New York, NY
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Come Wander With Me | Darren Solomon
Come Wander With Me is a hybrid DJ set/live instrumental performance piece by NS curator Darren Solomon, featuring choreography by Jennifer McQuiston Lott and video projections by Owen O’Neill. Incorporating the repurposed and transformed music of Charles Ives, Beethoven, Kelly Clarkson and Kanye West, among others, this work sails the waters of improvisation, spoken word, minimalism and electronic ambient music.
Wednesday, January 7 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Ljova & Dan Tepner
This world premiere will explore and reimagine the music of Johannes Brahms, alongside original compositions, with Ljova drawing from her training in classical music, and Temper his background in jazz.
Wednesday, January 7 at 9:30 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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The Real Me | Jeremy Flower & Carla Kihlstedt
Jeremy Flower’s The Real Me is the debut record from the Cambridge, MA composer and multi-instrumentalist. The album is a catalog of realizations made while getting older; like diary entries from someone that finally understands all the axioms preached by an older generation are full of truth. It features the voice of Carla Kihlstedt with a core group of guitar, bass, drums and electronics, which live within a chamber ensemble of winds, brass, and strings.
Thursday, January 8 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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The Last Hotel | Prototype
Donnacha Dennehy – Photo by Sophie Dennehy
A woman meets a couple in a hotel parking lot. All three are nervous. They have come to seal a pact. Donnacha Dennehy’s opera, The Last Hotel, reunites the creators of Misterman (with Cillian Murphy) and arrives after engagements at the Royal Opera House, Edinburgh International, and Dublin Theatre Festivals.
Thursday, January 8, 9, 12, & 15 at 8:00 PM & January 10 & 17 at 3 PM
Tickets $51
St. Ann’s Warehouse, 45 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Dog Days | Prototype
David T. Little – Photo by Merri Cyr
Dog Days is a work of contemporary opera-theatre that investigates the psychology of a working class American family pitted against a not-so-distant-future wartime scenario. Exploring the ultimate struggle of humanity—stuck between nature’s indifference and society’s barely restrained brutality—Dog Days asks: is it madness, delusion, or sheer animal instinct that guides us through severely trying times? Where is the line between animal and human? At what point must we give into our animal instincts merely to survive?
Thursday, January 8, 9, & 11 at 8:00 PM & January 10 at 3 PM
Tickets $40-$81
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY
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Sága | Prototype
Sága stands midway between a modern opera and a song cycle, told through the prism of the Belgian indie band Dez Mona in a sparkling collaboration with B.O.X. (Baroque Orchestration X), along with the outstanding vocalist Gregory Frateur, and tells stories of the soul, and goes in search of love for the land, a home and the world in which it lives. The title refers to the well-known epic tales composed in Iceland and Greenland some time between the 12th and 14th centuries, as well as to Sága, the goddess of history and storytelling in Norse mythology.
Friday, January 9 at 7:00 PM & 9:00 PM & Saturday, January 10 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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North/South Consonance
Banjo virtuoso Ken Perlman will join conductor Max Lifchitz and the North/South Chamber Orchestra for a performance of Harold Schiffman’s Banjo Concerto. The multigenerational program will also feature works by Elizabeth Bell and Max Lifchitz as well as the first US performance of a recent work by the young Italian composer Paolo Boggio.
Saturday, January 10 at 3:00 PM
Free
Christ & St Stephen’s Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY
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