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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

High Line 🌳 Mile-Long Opera

Mile-Long Opera 2018
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Wednesday October 3rd
Monday     October 8th
Free with ticket RSVP
The High Line
Chelsea and Manhattan’s Meatpacking District 
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Mile-Long Opera Tickets
  • Tickets are free with registration. On performance days, the High Line will close to the public early
  • Ticket holders will be given timed entry to the High Line.
  • Register for tickets at milelongopera.com
  • Tickets are currently closed. You can register for the wait list at www.thehighline.org 
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Visit the Mile-Long Opera
  • Entrance to the High Line for the Opera is from Gansevoort St at Washington St in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.
  • The performance ends at the High Line exit on 34th St between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues.
  • Arrive 20-40 minutes before the timed entry on your ticket. Late arrivals may lose their reservation.
Subway
  •     (A) (C) (E) to 14th St and Eighth Avenue
  •     (L) to 14th St and Eighth Avenue
  •     (1) (2) (3) to 14th St and Seventh Avenue
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The composer David Lang, in green, with the architect Liz Diller, his partner in creating "The Mile-Long Opera," a work for 1,000 singers on the High Line in New York.
CreditCreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times
In ‘The Mile-Long Opera’
All the High Line’s a Stage
By Joshua Barone -     Sept. 28, 2018
“You always step into this life cycle of the city, whether it’s declining or being reborn, and you don’t even understand how you’re a part of it,” the famed architect Liz Diller said earlier this week on the High Line, a modern triumph of her firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
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The Mile-Long Opera, a biography of 7 o’clock, is on the High Line in Chelsea and Manhattan’s Meatpacking District

The Mile-Long Opera is free public opera sung by 1,000 New Yorkers on Manhattan’s High Line. It tells the stories of hundreds of New Yorkers about what 7:00 pm means to them.

Audiences can enjoy the opera by walking the High Line. Each singer tells a different story which you can hear alone as you pass or with others in unison.

Preparation for the opera is a major community engagement initiative. The singers are New Yorkers from all five boroughs, just like you.

The project was created by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfo and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, with words and lyrics by poets Anne Carson and Claudia Rankine.

Diller Scofidio + Renfo are the architects of the High Line and Lincoln Center.

David Lang is known for his large-scale public music projects such as The Public Domain for one thousand voices at Lincoln Center, and his Symphony for a Broken Orchestra with hundreds of broken school instruments.

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