Aruán Ortiz: Transatlantic Contemporary Music and Five Operatic Scenes

Tuesday, September 23, 2025. 8:00 pm
Composer/pianist explores Afro-diasporic identity through the lens of new music & avant-jazz, with scenes from his opera.

CELESTIAL EXCURSIONS: An Opera by Robert Ashley (NIGHT 3)

Sunday, September 14, 2025. 8:00 pm
The great American composer's wise, sensitive, charming, and humorous portrayal of largely ignored territory: old people.

CELESTIAL EXCURSIONS: An Opera by Robert Ashley (NIGHT 2)

Saturday, September 13, 2025. 8:00 pm
The great American composer's wise, sensitive, charming, and humorous portrayal of largely ignored territory: old people.

CELESTIAL EXCURSIONS: An Opera by Robert Ashley (NIGHT 1)

Friday, September 12, 2025. 8:00 pm
The great American composer's wise, sensitive, charming, and humorous portrayal of largely ignored territory: old people.

Simon Hanes: GARGANTUA

Thursday, December 12, 2024. 8:00 pm
Gargantua is a new composition for large ensemble, consisting of 3 drum sets, 3 electric basses, 3 trombones, 3 french horns, and 3 voices.

Elliott Sharp: Die Grösste Fuge (The Greatest Fugue), a time travel opera

Thursday, June 13, 2024. 8:00 pm
An opera by Elliott Sharp in which Beethoven becomes unmoored from reality, visits our time, and witnesses its beauties and horrors.

FOREIGN EXPERIENCES: An Opera by Robert Ashley (Night 3)

Saturday, May 11, 2024. 8:00 pm
A new production of the 1993 opera: Too many broken dreams. Too much vodka. Too many esoteric books. Too much loneliness. Too much California.

FOREIGN EXPERIENCES: An Opera by Robert Ashley (Night 2)

Friday, May 10, 2024. 8:00 pm
A new production of the 1993 opera: Too many broken dreams. Too much vodka. Too many esoteric books. Too much loneliness. Too much California.

FOREIGN EXPERIENCES: An Opera by Robert Ashley (Night 1)

Thursday, May 9, 2024. 8:00 pm
A new production of the 1993 opera: Too many broken dreams. Too much vodka. Too many esoteric books. Too much loneliness. Too much California.

JACK Quartet: Beautiful Trouble by Natacha Diels

Friday, March 15, 2024. 8:00 pm
“Beautiful Trouble” is a 5-act live multimedia performance by Natacha Diels and JACK Quartet about simplicity and beauty.