⌚️2025-06-20 20:30:00 –
🏢Lincoln Center
*Please note: This performance contains adult themes and graphic content. Audience discretion is advised.
The American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*), a leading force among today’s most innovative and visionary interdisciplinary ensembles, opens their Run AMOC* Festival within Summer for the City with the New York premiere of The Comet/Poppea. This production fuses Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea (1642) with W.E.B. Du Bois’s short story The Comet (1920). Directed by Yuval Sharon, it explores power, survival, and race through the lens of cosmic disaster. George Lewis’s evocative new score—a 2025 Pulitzer finalist—links these narratives in a visionary operatic landscape. The stellar cast features AMOC* members Davóne Tines and Anthony Roth Costanzo. Tony Award winner and Lincoln Center Artist-in-Residence (2022–24) Mimi Lien’s rotating set merges ancient Rome with comet-ravaged New York, creating an apocalyptic, immersive experience. The audience is seated on the stage of the theater, flanking these spinning worlds, with the rarified backdrop of the vast empty auditorium.
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