Sarah Hennies & Mara Baldwin: Come 'Round Right

OPERA
SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2020
7:00 PM

FERUS Festival
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

$25
https://nationalsawdust.org/event/sarah-hennies-mara-baldwin

An "opera with no characters", because it's about a deserted Shaker community whose inhabitants have all died or left (the utopian socialist Shakers demanded celibacy — and now there are only two of them left in the world).  The Shakers have left us beautiful artifacts, though — proto-Minimalist furniture and hymns — and one assumes this piece will feature them properly.  Composer Sarah Hennies writes unpredictable-but-followable Minimalistish percussion-based music (as you'd expect from someone who's also a rock band drummer).  Visual artist Mara Baldwin provides the visuals.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Small hike over to Ops offshoot Leo for more great pizza:  slices this time — and other solid foods (lasagna!) as well.