Teatro Grattacielo’s 2025 season invites audiences into spaces where memory, love, resistance, and transformation unfold through music. From a world-premiere jazz opera to reimagined masterpieces and works rooted in cultural identity, each production offers a bold encounter between tradition and experimentation. Presented at La MaMa and beyond, the season reflects our commitment to storytelling that resonates deeply and differently.
DANIEL ASIA | The Tin Angel
World Premiere Opera
June 28 & 29, 2025 – Ellen Stewart Theater, La MaMa
Music by Daniel Asia | Libretto by Paul Pines
Sung in English with Supertitles
Conducted by Enrico Fagone | Directed by Chloe Treat
Based on Paul Pines’ acclaimed novel, The Tin Angel is set in a gritty Bowery jazz club in 1970s New York—an echo of the legendary Tin Palace that Pines himself founded in 1973. Within its smoke-filled walls, a cast of musicians, misfits, and ghosts navigate grief, addiction, and the hunger for meaning. Pablo, the club’s owner, is haunted by the death of his closest friend, and as past and present collide, jazz becomes the lifeblood of memory and redemption. Featuring an all-female creative team and immersive staging, this new opera merges poetry, surrealism, and live jazz into a powerful reflection on trauma, love, and rebirth.
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BUY JUNE 28 > BUY JUNE 29 > LEARN MORE
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JORGE SOSA | Generación Perdida
Generación Perdida
World Premiere Opera
July 15, 2025 – The Downstairs Theater, La MaMa
Music by Jorge Sosa | Libretto by Pablo Zinger
Sung in Spanish with English Supertitles
Conducted by TianHui NG | Directed by Elena Araoz
Generación Perdida offers a lyrical response to the humanitarian crises affecting Latin America, where forced disappearances and systemic violence have shattered lives. Rather than depict trauma head-on, the opera evokes reflection and resilience through poetry, abstraction, and music. Voices rise from the silence—witnesses, survivors, poets—inviting us to bear witness to the echoes of loss, and to the enduring power of artistic resistance.
PIETRO MASCAGNI | L' Amico Fritz
L’Amico Fritz
July 5 & 6, 2025 – The Downstairs Theater, La MaMa
Music by Pietro Mascagni | Libretto by Nicola Daspuro (P. Suardon)
Sung in Italian with English Supertitles
Conducted by Andy Anderson | Directed by Anna Laura Miszerak
In this tender tale of emotional awakening, Fritz Kobus—wealthy, reserved, and resistant to love—is unexpectedly stirred by Suzel, the daughter of one of his tenants. Set against the rhythms of rural life, Mascagni’s score shimmers with lyricism and nuance, revealing deeper emotional layers beneath a deceptively simple libretto. This production brings new intimacy to the rarely performed opera, highlighting the quiet power of vulnerability, and the unspoken language of desire.
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BUY JULY 19 > BUY JULY 20 > LEARN MORE
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W.A.MOZART | Le Nozze di Figaro
Le Nozze di Figaro
July 10, 11 & 13, 2025 – The Downstairs Theater, La MaMa
Music by W.A. Mozart | Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Sung in Italian with English Supertitles
Conducted by Abdiel Vazquez | Directed by Stefanos Koroneos
Mozart’s immortal comedy returns in a daring new staging that strips the palace down to its shadows. Inspired by Beaumarchais’ revolutionary play, this production explores the dualities of public masks and private desires. The action unfolds in a divided space—half suspended in stylized abstraction, half grounded in reality—where the characters’ illusions unravel through light, movement, and silence. Figaro becomes not only a comedy of class and lust, but a meditation on power, perception, and change.
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BUY JULY 25 > BUY JULY 26 > BUY JULY 27 > LEARN MORE
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Tribute to Napoli: Songs of Eternal Passion
Tribute to Naples: Songs of Eternal Passion
July 15, 2025 – 7:00PM – Columbus Citizens Foundation
Presented by Teatro Grattacielo & Camerata Bardi Vocal Academy
This special concert celebrates the enduring beauty of Neapolitan song—a musical tradition that traveled from the sunlit streets of Naples to the hearts of Italian immigrant communities in New York. For generations, these melodies have carried memories, longing, and cultural identity. Featuring a vibrant cast of singers and the acclaimed mandolin-guitar duo Mammola–Brandi, Tribute to Naples offers a heartfelt evening of music, history, and emotion.
Our 2025 is partially made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
