(New York, NY, March 15, 2011) New York City Opera joins forces with The L Magazine to present ACT 4, a fourth ring cocktail bar and lounge serving free drinks and featuring special guest performances from all cultural corners of the city.  ACT 4 was launched during City Opera’s fall 2010 season and resumes this spring on Thursday, March 24 following the 8:00 p.m. performance of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love.  Each ACT 4 performance is programmed to tie-in to a production during the season, providing an additional entertainment experience for culture seekers who want to keep the party going after the curtain falls. Admission is free with your opera ticket purchase.

 

March 24, 2011: Following the performance of The Elixir of Love

The jangly, self-recorded ramblings of Brooklyn's Dustin Payseur, Beach Fossils offers hauntingly catchy tunes that blend the energy of an impulsive road trip with the melodious wandering of a lucid dream. Sun drenched riffs, kaleidoscopic rhythms, and hazy lyrics saturate Beach Fossils' first release, an album with a carefree vibe perfectly summed up through song titles such as "Daydream," "Vacation," and "Lazy Day."

 

Artists Jenny Liu and Maria Chavez, curated by the New Art Dealers Alliance

Enjoy a special post-opera audio/visual performance, FUGUE STATE E, with artists Jenny Liu and Maria Chavez.  This collaboration began in conversations about using fragments of discarded sound and image to create new stories. Both artists have accumulated, over the years, vast archives of sound and images. Jen (on laptop and projector) and Maria (on turntables) create parallel aural and visual narratives from their respective archives, based on a story of their choosing, which changes with each performance.  This site-specific evening will be semi-improvised, with sources prepared in accordance with the text.

 

April 20, 2011: Following the performance of Séance on a Wet Afternoon

SMALL BLACK
The sounds of chillwave indie band Small Black are full of pulsing patchwork synths and addictive, stay-gold hooks. The Brooklyn band deliriously smudges of the lines between melancholy and nostalgia, tension and celebration, and unabashed pop music with experimentation. 

 

April 28, 2011: Following the performance of Séance on a Wet Afternoon  

Featuring mind-bending lectures, volatile experiments, chemical libations, and star-gazing sounds, the braniacs of The Secret Science Club head uptown to host a fun and informative lecture about the occult and the beyond.  A mainstay at Brooklyn's Bell House, this eclectic group is one you won't want to miss.

 

 

Performances are free to opera ticket buyers in the fourth ring, as well as the rest of the theater. Ticket prices range from $12-$140 for City Opera’s main stage performances. Underscoring its commitment to make opera affordable for all New Yorkers, New York City Opera will continue to offer 25% of seats for under $25.  For more information on City Opera’s spring season visit nycOpera.com.

 

Tickets can be purchased in-person at the David H. Koch Theater Box Office (63^rd Street and Columbus Avenue), online at nycOpera.com, or through CenterCharge at 212.721.6500.

 

Maggie McKeon, Director of Public Relations

212.870.7718 / mmckeon@nycOpera.com

 

Shara Seigel, Publicity Coordinator

212.870.5632 / sseigel@nycOpera.com