Run AMOC* Festival and ‘The Gospel at Colonus' Review: Mythology and Mortality in Opera
Some summer festivals delight in the unconventional, and two marquee venues here are pursuing that path with gusto. Lincoln Center's Summer for the City, previously light on classical programming, is hosting the Run AMOC* Festival, curated by the American Modern Opera Company, a maverick group of creators and performers. Downtown, Little Island's producing artistic director is the inventive Zack Winokur, also a co-founder of AMOC with composer Matthew Aucoin.
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