A Mile-Long Opera Is Coming to the High Line

Artist-in-Residence David Lang has established himself as a master of powerful, large-scale public music through ambitious projects like “the public domain,” for 1,000 voices at Lincoln Center, and “symphony for a broken orchestra,” for hundreds of broken school instruments in Philadelphia.

And he’s back at it again: “The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o’clock,” which will have its premiere Oct. 3-7, is written for 1,000 singers who will perform along the High Line in Manhattan.

Read more at the New York Times.