Magdalene
This wild meditation on transformation and desire scored by the collective voices of fourteen women. Set to Marie Howe’s Magdalene poems, the opera invites an audience into the interior world of Mary Magdalene — enlarging her to cross time and space, she appears as a woman alive now, who strives to heal the unyielding split between the sacred and the sexual. Encountering her life in flashes – wandering through a hotel, lighting birthday candles, making love in the ocean – Magdalene finds transcendence in the mundane to finally become the subject of her own story.
Produced by PROTOTYPE
Run time: 70 minutes
Photo Credit: Hana Sooyeon Kim
Sat, Jan 11 / Mon, Jan 13 / Wed, Jan 15 / Fri, Jan 17 @ 7:30pm
Sun, Jan 12 @ 4pm
Thu, Jan 16 @ 6:30pm
$35–$75
$30 with PROTO Pack
$60 with Premium PROTO Pack
Students and teachers can get a free rush ticket upon presenting valid ID. There is a limit of 1 ticket per person, and the ticket will be given out just before the House closes and the show begins. Entirely subject to availability.
Magdalene is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature