{"id":351574,"date":"2026-09-20T07:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T07:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351574\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T07:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T07:24:23","slug":"opera-lincoln-in-the-bardo-gets-preview-at-green-wood-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351574\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ gets preview at Green-Wood Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn\u2019s Green-Wood Cemetery<\/a> is about to become the setting for one very unusual night at the opera. On September 25, Death of Classical, Green-Wood and the Metropolitan Opera<\/a> team up for an immersive preview of Lincoln in the Bardo, a new opera based on George Saunders\u2019s Booker Prize\u2013winning novel.<\/p>\n

The evening begins at sunset with a journey through Green-Wood\u2019s historic grounds, where musicians, dancers, actors and other performers will create a theatrical netherworld inspired by the novel\u2019s restless spirits. After the procession through the cemetery, audiences will gather for an intimate performance featuring stars from the upcoming Metropolitan Opera production, followed by a conversation with composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek, moderated by music journalist Amanda Petrusich.<\/p>\n

Saunders’ book is set\u00a0during the Civil War, after the death of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s 11-year-old son, Willie. The president visits his son\u2019s grave, while Willie\u2019s spirit remains trapped in the bardo (a realm between life and death) along with a chorus of other dead souls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED:\u00a0SNL alum Bowen Yang is Broadway\u2019s new Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary!<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Courtesy The Metropolitan OperaLincoln in the Bardo <\/p>\n

The opera marks another major collaboration between Mazzoli and Vavrek, who have previously worked together on acclaimed operatic projects. The Metropolitan Opera will give Lincoln in the Bardo\u00a0its world premiere on October 19, making this Green-Wood performance a chance to hear the new work before it arrives on the Met stage.<\/p>\n

There will also be complimentary spirit tastings, non-alcoholic drinks and light snacks for attendees 21 and older. Just dress for the terrain, since the\u00a0event\u00a0requires a roughly 20-minute walk over hilly, uneven ground, although trolley service is available for part of the journey.<\/p>\n

There is one catch, and it is a very New York one: The event is already sold out. A waitlist is available, though, so if you want to spend a Friday night wandering through a cemetery before listening to a brand-new opera about ghosts, now would be the time to get on it. Or you could wander Green-Wood on your own time, listening to the cast album for Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium for your own spooky benefit.<\/p>\n

For more information and to join the waitlist, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn\u2019s Green-Wood Cemetery is about to become the setting for one very unusual night at the opera. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,8122,9,24,8123,63,905],"class_list":["post-351574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-categories-theater","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-theater-performance","tag-nyc","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}