World Premiere | THE TIN ANGEL | Teatro Grattacielo

Saturday, June 28 | 6pm

Sunday, June 29 | 3pm

MUSIC BY Daniel Asia

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LIBRETTO BY Paul Pines

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LOCATION | Ellen Stewart Theater, La MaMa, creative shares | 66 East 4th Street, New York NY

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SUNG IN ENGLISH WITH SUPERTITLES

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PRODUCTION SUPPORT GENEROUSLY PROVIDED BY:

· Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

· Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation

· The DuBose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund

· Michael and Kay Anderson

· I. Michael and Beth Kasser

· Gary and Tandy Kippur

· Eric Bottcher, New York City Council Member, Third District

· The Tin Angel is partialy 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.

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The Tin Angel Opera, written to a libretto by Paul Pines and based on his widely acclaimed novel of the same name, with music by award-winning composer Daniel Asia, is set in the edgy world of a NYC downtown Bowery jazz club, where a unique cast of characters play out their dramatic story as a call for redemption.

The inspiration behind the story is The Tin Palace, the real-life New York City’s jazz mecca of the 70s, founded by Paul Pines in 1973.

The Tin Angel is a grand opera in the tradition of Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and Carlisle Floyd, great American composers who incorporated popular folk songs and jazz styles into serious works with an unmistakably American flavor. Daniel Asia (music) and Paul Pines (libretto) have based the story on Pines’ own hit novel from 1982, and it’s a story unlike any other in opera, combining the American immigrant experience with the energy and suspense of a detective thriller. It incorporates elements of jazz into serious art music in a tale of love, revenge, and redemption set in the dangerous, underground world of a Bowery nightclub.

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