Danielle Birritella & Zoe Aja Moore: Magdalene

OPERA
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY, JANUARY 13 & 15 – 17, 2020
7:30 PM MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY
6:30 PM THURSDAY

PROTOYPE Festival
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Hudson Square, Manhattan

$30-$75
http://prototypefestival.org/shows/magdalene/

This piece sets poems by Marie Howe that take the audience into the interior world or Mary Magdalene.  But what makes it perhaps the most exciting entry in this year's PROTOTYPE New Opera festival is that the score is by a galaxy of really good young (female) composers, people whose work you just want to hear.  Just to cherrypick from a totally distinguished list:  Ellen Reid, Kamala Sankaram, Emma O'Halloran, Molly Joyce, Gabrielle Herbst, Bergrun Snæbjörnsdóttir.  Irresistible.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Café Altro Paradiso around either show.