Singer

Opera Grand Rapids proudly presents the Michigan premiere of Stuck Elevator, a groundbreaking chamber opera by composer Byron Au Yong and librettist Aaron Jafferis. Inspired by the true story of an undocumented Chinese immigrant trapped in a Bronx elevator for 81 hours, this genre-defying work fuses opera, hip-hop, and spoken word to illuminate the unseen struggles of immigrant life in urban America. This landmark production features an all native Chinese-speaking cast and the first all-Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) creative team to stage the opera, under the visionary direction of Mo Zhou, marking a significant milestone in the work’s performance history.

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Stuck Elevator

Betty Van Andel Opera Center

The China Now Music Festival returns to the Sosnoff Theater with a program of symphonic works by three generations of living composers from China. Conductor Jindong Cai connects this year’s festival theme of ‘music in motion’ to the extraordinary momentum shaping the development of contemporary classical music in China from the 1980s to today.

China Now Music Festival: Music in Motion

Fisher Center at Bard

This finale performance highlights Lehrer Vocal Institute fellows in curated selections. Plus, orchestral favorites the William Tell Overture and The Pines of Rome.

Speranza Scappucci William Tell Overture and The Pines of Rome.

Granada Theatre

The originally devised cabaret of thrilling music+theater that transports audiences to 1922 in an original story inspired by the politically charged Weimar German Republic and Berlin cabaret culture. The production uses the hall’s new 2022 upgrades of enhanced video and lighting technology, generously funded by the Hind Foundation.

Bass-baritone

Yue Wu

Events

Past events

20 - 21 Feb, 2026

Stuck Elevator · Opera Grand Rapids

Sep 27, 2025

China Now Music Festival: Music in Motion · Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

Future and recently performed repertoire

Zhong Yi in Stuck Elevator by Yong

Opera Grand Rapids

Singer in The Song of the Earth by Xiaogang

Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

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