The Little Opera Theatre Of NY

The little OPERA theatre of ny (LOTNY) is a chamber opera company that was founded in 2004. Last spring, the little OPERA theatre of ny [LOTNY] produced Jupiter’s Journey to the Earth at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. An original adaptation and translation of Haydn’s marionette opera Philemon und Baucis. It was little OPERA’s first family friendly production of Opera & Puppets for Kids and was called “delightful...spirited… [and] engaging” in Opera UK. The previous season American One Acts, a double bill was presented at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. by William Grant Still, libretto by Verna Arvey, with Down in the Valley by Kurt Weill, libretto by Arnold Sundgaard. The NY Classical Review credited little OPERA for "brightly reviving a pair of American rarities" and calling the performances "outstanding." Since its founding in 2004, the little OPERA theatre of ny has presented four NY Stage Premieres: Britten/Piper’s Owen Wingrave; Hasse/Coltellini’s Piramo e Tisbe; Floyd’s Prince of Players; Mozart/Cigna-Santi’s Mitridate, re di Ponto; two US Stage Premieres: Saint-Georges/ Desfontaines/De Genlis’ L' Amant Anonyme; Cui/Pushkin’s A Feast in the Time of the Plague; one World Premiere: Zaretsky/Kharms Man in a Black Coat: and commissioned a new translation of Mozart/Metastasio’s Il re pastore as The Shepherd King from Mark Herman & Ronnie Apter. LOTNY’s concerts have included Past & Present on Governors Island; This Little Light of Mine at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, The Bohemians at Socrates Sculpture Park and Floydiana at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. To date, the little OPERA theatre of ny has performed in four boroughs. Previous performances in Brooklyn included the GK Arts Center and The Bushwick Starr.