American Modern Opera Company

In the 2022/23 season, amoc premiered a new production of harawi at festival aix-en-provence, an affecting interpretation of olivier messiaen's song cycle that breaks open its explorations of love and death into a newly physicalized and theatrical dimension. In the spring, the production continued to desingel (antwerp), elbphilharmonie (hamburg), and startfestival (leverkusen). The 2022/23 season also included the world premiere of bobbi jene smith's broken theater at unc chapell hill and oz arts in nashville; a chamber version of john adams's el nino, conceived by julia bullock, at the cathedral of st. john the divine; and the new york premieres of carolyn chen's how to fall apart at the baryshnikov arts center and anthony cheung's the echoing of tenses at the 92nd street y. Additional activities include an interdisciplinary performance residency at brown university, a concert of new music written by amoc artists at the clark art institute, and exhibition opening performances at tina kim gallery ("house of the inhabitant who refused to participate," curated by charlap hyman & herrero) and hauser & wirth (jenny holzer's "demented words").