Comet / Poppea // Run AMOC Festival Lincoln Center
Wed, Jun 18
|New York
Fusing Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea (1642) with George Lewis' setting of W.E.B. Du Bois’s short story The Comet (1920).
Time & Location
Jun 18, 2025, 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM
New York, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, USA
About the event
AMOC* opens our milestone Run AMOC* Festival with the New York premiere of The Comet / Poppea. This production fuses Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea (1642) with W.E.B. Du Bois’s short story The Comet (1920). Directed by Yuval Sharon, it explores power, survival, and race through the lens of cosmic disaster. George Lewis’s evocative new score links these narratives in a visionary operatic landscape. The stellar cast features AMOC* members Davóne Tines and Anthony Roth Costanzo. Tony Award-winner and Lincoln Center Artist-in-Residence (2022–24) Mimi Lien’s rotating set merges ancient Rome with comet-ravaged New York, creating an apocalyptic, immersive experience.
George Lewis and Claudio Monteverdi, composers
Based on the short story “The Comet” by W.E.B Du Bois
Douglas Kearney, Libretto
Yuval Sharon, Concept and Direction
Marc Lowenstein, Music Director