OPERA / DANCE

Ellis Ludwig-Leone: The Night Falls

THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 – 12, 2023
7:30 THURSDAY & FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

Peak Performances
Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University
1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey

$40-$50
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Ellis “San Fermin” Ludwig-Leone composes a dance-centered music-theater piece on a text by the peerlessly creepy Karen Russell with choreography by Troy Schumacher. Russell and Shumacher are golden (as is soprano Eliza Bagg) — but I keep finding myself unable to decide whether Ludwig-Leone’s pop-meliflous Alt Classical and classically inflected Chamber Pop are exquisite or too precious.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s not that there’s only one good restaurant in Montclair — there are lots — but that there’s only one within walking distance of Montclair State: New American treat Turtle & The Wolf.