Part film screening. Part industrial rock opera concert. Part immersive theater experience.

Black Lodge

STILE Downtown Los Angeles by Kasa

Competition abounds in this World Premiere double bill, where comedy takes to the court in a theatrical spectacle culminating in the 1973 ‘Battle of the Sexes!’

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Birds & Balls

SFJAZZ Center

Drawing from recorded conversations with veterans, David T. Little’s Soldier Songs combines classical music and heavy metal in a theatrical cantata that follows the life of a soldier in three phases: Youth, Warrior, and Elder. The highly-charged monodrama, with its driving music and unflinching libretto, offers a compelling and honest description of the psychological impact of war. Renowned baritone David Adam Moore stars in this powerful and haunting piece.

Soldier Songs

Epiphany Center for the Arts

THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT is an ongoing series of 81 commissions for cello, celebrating a rich tapestry of distinct and diverse compositional palettes. Each composer has been asked to respond to two paintings, Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera (c.1480) and Charline von Heyl’s Primavera 2020. This three-day residency at the Barge offers a curated survey divided into three thematic programs, featuring 17 works heard for the first time in NYC and world premieres by Tyshawn Sorey, Texu Kim, Layale Chaker, Analia Llugdar, and Aaron Jay Kernis. Works by Josquin des Prez and J.S. Bach offer a musical grounding through the centuries.

Eclectic Series: The Primavera Project / RITES OF SPRING / Matt Haimovitz

Bargemusic

Drawing on the complicated mythologies of the surrealist writer William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), Black Lodge uses dance, industrial rock, classical string quartet, and opera to take viewers through a Lynchian psychological escape room. 

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest moment in his life, he mines fractured and repressed memories for a way out. A woman is at the center of all the writer’s afterlife encounters. She is the subject of his life’s greatest regret, and she materializes everywhere in this Otherworld. The writer cannot detach any thoughts of his life from her. 

Opera commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects and the Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman Venture Fund for Opera.

David T. Little

Events

Upcoming events

11 - 15 Jan, 2025

Black Lodge · Prototype Festival

Past events

Oct 19, 2024

Black Lodge · Beth Morrison Projects

5 - 7 Apr, 2024

Birds & Balls · Opera Parallèle

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