Diamanda Galás: Defixiones, Orders from the Dead

Vocalist, pianist, composer, performance artist and diva sine qua non Diamanda Galás makes a special two-night appearance in New York with the East Coast premiere of her latest and most ambitious work to date–Defixiones, Orders from the Dead. Presented by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council as part of its 2005 What Comes After: Cities, Art and Recovery, this sacred operatic mass is a sweeping work of historical memory that excavates the so-called “minor holocaust” of Asia Minor–namely the Armenian, Assyrian, Anatolian and Pontic Greek genocides that occurred between 1914 and 1923–long buried and denied by the Turkish government to this day.