A Marvelous Order is an opera by Judd Greenstein to a libretto by Tracy K. Smith about New York urban activist Jane Jacobs and urban planner Robert Moses. The work was conceived by three artists—Greenstein, Smith and director Joshua Frankel,[1] who also created animation that is projected throughout the opera.
A Marvelous Order was given a work-in-progress "pre-premiere" in March 2016 at the '62 Center for Theater and Dance at Williams College.[2][3][4] An excerpt was presented in June 2017 at the Fulton Center in New York City by the River to River Festival.[5][6] In 2021, excerpts of A Marvelous Order were presented by Brooklyn Public Library in the plaza in front of the Central Library, outdoors, in concert, with animation projected onto the building’s Art Deco facade.[7]
The completed opera had its world premiere on October 20, 2022 at the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State, in the culmination of a multi-year partnership which included three creative development residencies.[8][9]
The premiere of A Marvelous Order received a rave[10] review from the Wall Street Journal.[11]
^"F*&% Robert Moses. Let's Start Over". WNYC. May 17, 2021.
^Lange, Alexandra (May 4, 2016). "Imagining Jane Jacobs". Curbed. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^McArdle, Molly (May 25, 2016). "A Marvelous Order: A Gentrification Opera for Our Times". Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^Marcisz, Christopher (March 11, 2016). "Urban myth and reality ignite new opera". The Berkshire Eagle. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^Zax, Tayla (June 21, 2017). "New Opera Tells Story Of Robert Moses And Jane Jacobs — In The City Where They Battled". The Forward.
^Barone, Joshua (April 12, 2017). "An Opera About Robert Moses Is Among the River to River Festival Highlights". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
^Jacobs, Karrie (April 21, 2022). "Why Libraries May Never Stop Being People Places". The New York Times.
^Waleson, Heidi. "'A Marvelous Order' Review: Battling the Power Broker". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
^Weiner, Natalie. "A 'Marvelous' Endeavor". PennStater Magazine. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
^van Straaten, Laura. "'A Kinetic Cloud of Humanity for Moynihan Train Hall". New York Times.
^Waleson, Heidi. "'A Marvelous Order' Review: Battling the Power Broker". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
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