OPERA
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2018
8:00 PM

Kate Soper: Ipsa Dixit
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan

$20-$30
https://www.millertheatre.com/events/kate-soper

Creating astonishing music-theater pieces that meld music and literature and philosophy is all in day's work for Kate Soper; this one is stunning, engrossing, and unlike anything else -- except other similarly wonderful works in Soper'soeuvre.  Here, Soper as vocalist gives an extended philosophy lecture with the assistance of three accompanying musicians.  It's funny, it's inventive, it's funny, it's thought-provoking -- and, oh, it's funny.  But don't listen to me:  listen to Alex Ross.

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