OPERA
MONDAY & TUESDAY, APRIL 15 & 16, 2019
7:30 PM

Benjamin Staern: HILMA
Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$45
https://www.guggenheim.org/event/hilma-by-benjamin-staern-and-mira-bartov-with-fredrik-and-mette-af-klint

In conjunction with the soon-to-be-closing exhibition, Swedish composer Benjamin Staern presents a chamber opera (in English) about his countrywoman Hilma af Klint, who may or may not have invented modern abstract European art.  They even got a relative of the artist to sing.

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