Mohammed Fairouz, David T. Little Set for PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now

Beth Morrison Projects and HERE have announced the programming planned for the inaugural PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now festival, running January 9-19 in New York City.

The festival distils the curatorial visions of artistic directors Kristin Marting, Beth Morrison, and Kim Whitener and features visionary music-theater and opera-theater works such as the world premiere of Mohammed Fairouz’s Sumeida’s Song, directed by David Herskovits; a presentation of David T. Little’s Soldier Songs, based on recorded interviews with veterans of five wars, directed by Yuval Sharon; a multimedia cabaret concert performed by Los Angeles’s “audacious” dark-glam opera band Timur and the Dime Museum; and a concert reading of Paolo Prestini’s The Aging Magician, in collaboration with stage director/designer Julian Crouch, with text by Rinde Eckert.

All performances but Soldier Songs will take place at HERE with exact dates TBA. There will also be an international presentation, along with panels to coincide with Association of Performing Arts Presenters and International Society for the Performing Arts.

For more information and tickets to PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now, click here.