“Some of the most intense new music being made anywhere, on everything from oboes and one-of-a-kind instruments to the human body itself… unforgettable performances.” – The Wire, London
HIGH ZERO 2025
CELEBRATING TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS!
September 18 – 21
THE WEDDING JESTER
By John Feffer
October 2 – 5
THE WEDDING JESTER takes place In 1970, in a small village somewhere in Croatia. A stand-up comedian confronts the director of Fiddler on the Roof over errors in the film’s script.
In a former life, the comedian was a badkhen, a jester who served as the emcee at Jewish weddings, and he’s familiar with shtetl life in ways that Fiddler’s non-Jewish director couldn’t possibly know.
From IN Series
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
World Premiere Staging
Music by Alessandro Stradella
New English text by Bari Biern
Co-production with Catapult Opera
October 10 – 12
From the pen of one of the most audacious, salacious, and extraordinary composers ever to live (whose life was so fantastical that multiple operas were composed about it), comes this 17th century version of the biblical Salome story.