PROJECTS
The Mile-Long Opera
Wed, Oct 03
|The High Line @ 19th Street
The Mile-Long Opera, a citywide public engagement project, brings together 1,000 singers from across New York for free performances on the High Line.
Time & Location
Oct 03, 2018, 7:00 PM – Oct 08, 2018, 10:00 PM
The High Line @ 19th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA
About The Event
Co-created by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, with words and lyrics by acclaimed poets Anne Carson and Claudia Rankine, The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o’clock is an ambitious, collective, free choral work that shares personal stories from hundreds of New Yorkers about life in our rapidly changing city.
The work focuses on the changing meaning of 7:00 pm, the time the performance begins each evening, and a time that represents a transition from day to night, when people shift from one activity to the next. It is also a time traditionally associated with family, stability and home, yet today, those associations are less predictable. The diverse stories told in The Mile-Long Opera are inspired by first-hand interviews with New Yorkers from all walks of life. Their individual experiences reflect unique ways of coping with the contemporary condition—anxiety, humor, nostalgia, vulnerability, joy, and…