OPERA

Tomomi Adachi: Noh-opera / Noh-tation: Decoding John Cage's Unrealized Project

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
5:15 & 7:30 PM

John Cage’s Japan
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street, Turtle Bay, Manhattan

$40 5:15 PM; $32 persons with disability 5:15 PM; $42 7:30; $34 persons with disability 7:30
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So John Cage had conceived of this Noh-Opera (subtitled The Complete Musical Works of Marcel Duchamp) to be staged in Japan. But he never actually wrote (or — this is Cage — “wrote”) it. Now, composer/performer/sound artist Tomomi Adachi hasn't “realized” Cage’s piece but written his own imagination of what a Cage Noh-Opera could be like. Sung by Gelsey Bell, acted by Noh actor Wakako Matsuda, played by wind soloists from the International Contemporary Ensemble.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Red Sauce at Pietro’s (you’re sort of obligated to order the Shells a la Nat).