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RITUAL

13-14 DEZEMBER 2024//DECEMBER 13-14 2024

THE CELL THEATRE 338 W 23RD ST. NEW YORK NY
 

PROMPT: ADVENT III

Each generation brings suffering, struggle – but also fortitude and perseverance motivated by faith. We ask ourselves: what is the meaning of suffering, and why should we survive?

 

We must create our own salvation. While our bodies are temporal, we can create legacies that live on through the generations.

 

Fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam.

Quam olim Abrahæ promisisti, et semini eius.

Our ancestors will speak through us and we will find glory in speaking to our successors. We will live in sæcula sæculorum through our collective spirit that transcends all suffering and grows alongside us.

MUSIC BY

Viktor Ullmann, Erwin Schulhoff, David Beyglman,

Friedrich Holländer, Mischa Spoliansky, Kurt Weill,

Felix Mendelssohn, Arnold Schönberg,

Giacomo Meyerbeer, J.S. Bach

 

Arr. Jordan Rutter-Covatto

THE WANDERERS

A recital on immigration, heritage, and looking to the future.

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

Click here to read the program!

nude black and white portrait of opera singer Jordan Rutter-Covatto, countertenor, with fabric by GDM
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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.

thetanknyc.org

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