Little Opera Theatre of New York Presents American Opera Scenes: A Concert for 9\/11
\nThursday, September 11, 2025
\nShow starts at 6:30 pm
\nRSVP Free HERE
\nRain Date: Sunday, September 14, 2025\u00a0 |\u00a0 6 pm
\nThe concert will feature music by Carlisle Floyd, William Grant Still & Virgil Thomson; with words by Langston Hughes, Verna Arvey, and Gertrude Stein. The scenes are drawn from the history of the Americas both historical and fictional including Huey Long, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Susan B. Anthony.
\nAbout Little Opera Theatre of New York
\nThe Little Opera Theatre of New York (LOTNY) is a chamber opera company that was founded in 2004. Last spring, LOTNY\u00a0produced Jupiter\u2019s Journey to the Earth at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. An original adaptation and translation of Haydn\u2019s marionette opera Philemon und Baucis. It was Little Opera’s first family friendly production of Opera & Puppets for Kids and was called \u201cdelightful…spirited\u2026 [and] engaging\u201d by Opera UK. <\/p>\n
The previous season American One Acts, a double bill was presented at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. The production paired Highway 1, U.S.A. by William Grant Still, libretto by Verna Arvey, with Down in the Valley by Kurt Weill, libretto by Arnold Sundgaard. The NY Classical Review credited LOTNY for “brightly reviving a pair of American rarities” and calling the performances “outstanding.”<\/p>\n
Since its founding in 2004, LOTNY has presented four NY Stage Premieres: Britten\/Piper\u2019s Owen Wingrave; Hasse\/Coltellini\u2019s Piramo e Tisbe; Floyd\u2019s Prince of Players; Mozart\/Cigna-Santi\u2019s Mitridate, re di Ponto; two US Stage Premieres: Saint-Georges\/ Desfontaines\/De Genlis\u2019 L’ Amant Anonyme; Cui\/Pushkin\u2019s A Feast in the Time of the Plague; one World Premiere: Zaretsky\/Kharms Man in a Black Coat: and commissioned a new translation of Mozart\/Metastasio\u2019s Il re pastore as The Shepherd King from Mark Herman & Ronnie Apter.<\/p>\n
LOTNY\u2019s concerts have included Past & Present on Governors Island; This Little Light of Mine at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, The Bohemians at Socrates Sculpture Park and Floydiana at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music.<\/p>\n
To date, LOTNY has performed in four boroughs. Previous performances in Brooklyn included the GK Arts Center and The Bushwick Starr. Learn more at lotny.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7835,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event-category":[],"class_list":["post-7834","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-category?post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}