Brooklyn Academy of Music Reprises What to Wear – Preview

Brooklyn Academy of Music What to wear
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A spokesperson says---

"...What to wear; a raucous, bitingly funny post-rock opera by avant-garde theater icon Richard Foreman and celebrated composer Michael Gordon. In Foreman’s signature style, What to wear is a surreal extravaganza of operatic tableaux brought to hallucinatory life. A pageant of seductiveness gone wrong—as everyone on stage turns less and less beautiful—something more ecstatic than beauty slowly reveals its 21st-century face..."

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CAST:

Sarah Frei (Soprano 1), Sophie Delphis (Soprano 2), Hai-Ting Chinn (Mezzo), and Morgan Mastrangelo (Tenor). The vocal ensemble is comprised of Weiyu Wang, Kaileigh Riess, Leilah Rosen, Kira Dills-DeSurra, Jordan Jones, and Zen Wu. The movement ensemble is devika wickremesinghe (Dance Captain), Lindy Fines, Hallie Chametzky, Lilly Lorber, Annika Mankin, Celeste Goldes, Addie Levandowski and Chloe Claudel.

CREATIVE TEAM:

Direction, Libretto and Production by Richard Foreman
Music by Michael Gordon
Music Direction by Alan Pierson
Creative Direction by Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson

WHEN:

January 15—18, 2026

WHERE:

Harvey Theater
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Peter Jay Sharp Building
30 Lafayette Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11217-1486

TICKETS:

$35+

For more information and tickets visit the Brooklyn Academy of Music website.

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