POLYMATH:
La Comédie de la Mort
MUSIC | SPOKEN WORD | PHOTOGRAPHY
POLYMATH: La comédie de la Mort is a new interdisciplinary performance installation exploring the concept of Death as the apex Renaissance man. The program embraces the intersection of French expressionism and the queering of 20th-Century horror and features two world premieres of song cycles, prose readings, and a photography exhibit, all created by NYC-based queer artists, presented alongside repertory art songs composed by Henri Duparc and Hector Berlioz.
MUSIC
Jordan Rutter-Covatto, countertenor, Sydney Anderson, soprano, and Mila Henry, piano, perform:
HENRI DUPARC
“L'invitation au voyage“
“Au pays où se fait la guerre“
“La vague et la cloche”
HECTOR BERLIOZ
“Le spectre de la Rose”
JOSEPH N. RUBINSTEIN
absence, presence (world premiere)
JORDAN RUTTER-COVATTO
Flame and Shadow (world premiere)
SPOKEN WORD
Saúl Nache reads aloud from:
ANDRÉ SALAS
Vampire at a Boys Dormitory
(adapted from the screenplay of the same name)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Featuring a new photography exhibit by GDM
LOCATION
the cell theatre, 10011
ERATO
a baroque fetish fantasia
A narrative concert celebrating NYC’s leather community and queer sexuality through Baroque music. Follow the journey through desire, tension, and release to the joy of self-actualization - all set to the passion of the Italian Baroque.
Featuring:
Jordan Rutter-Covatto, countertenor
Kevin Devine, harpsichord
J. Adam Young, cello
Jeremy Rhizor, violin
Nadir Aslam, violin
Margrét Hjaltested, viola
Including works by Handel, Monteverdi, Legrenzi, and more. Curated and arranged by Jordan Rutter-Covatto.
Click here to read the program!
June 16, 7 pm
June 17, 9:30 pm
ERATO is presented by The Tank, a home for emerging artists.