Burning Bayreuth presents two contemporary operas

Founded by Noah S. Weber, the music series Burning Bayreuth produces socially relevant works in an approachable format that invites audience response.

For its debut performance, Burning Bayreuth presents two contemporary operas.

The Hunger Art

Based on a Kafka story, an opera that questions art’s potential to engage society at large

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The Gonzales Cantata

An opera that addresses the ambiguity of political crime in the post-Watergate era

Directed by Timothy Nelson

The Hunger Art and The Gonzales Cantata explore the loss of innocence in American culture between the end of World War Two and Watergate through the perspective of the television. A giant television frame unifies the two works. The audience first watches a media-saturated society’s depiction of a man’s fall, and then sees the more human reality of that fall. Together, these works question the artistic and ethical boundaries that exist in the so-called postmodern era.