PROTOTYPE: Opera-Theatre-Now, now celebrating its eighth year, is an annual festival of visionary opera-theatre and music-theatre works by pioneering contemporary artists from New York City and around the world.
The festival is the only one of its kind in the United States – presenting fully produced premieres, national and international presentations, and work-in-progress showings of original genre-bending works by both emerging and career artists from the contemporary classical opera-theatre and music-theatre idiom.This year’s festival will showcase 12 works and 24 composer/librettists and over 150 collaborators
Focusing on innovative, mostly chamber-scale works, it took only five years for PROTOTYPE to become "Essential to the evolution of American Opera" (The New Yorker)
"Not-to-miss event for those who want to discover the next big thing" (WQXR)
