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    LAU NOAH'S "A DECADE OF MIRACLES" - A FOLK OPERA IN DEFENSE OF HUMAN ART

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    Wednesday, November 11, 2026

    8:00 PM

    National Sawdust

    Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    Lau Noah presents "A Decade of Miracles," framed as a folk opera and a defense of human-made art, at National Sawdust. The Spanish singer, instrumentalist and composer moves between jazz vocabulary and songcraft, building pieces around contrapuntal guitar and tightly braided vocal lines. She has been recognized by the Recording Academy as a musical polymath and treats arrangement and performance as a single continuous act, favoring clarity over spectacle.

    About A Decade of Miracles(opera)

    At National Sawdust, Spanish singer, guitarist, and composer Lau Noah brings *A Decade of Miracles*, a jazz-leaning folk opera framed as an argument for human-made art in an era of automation. Built around contrapuntal guitar and closely threaded vocal lines, the piece traces a ten-year span of craft, memory, and artistic labor. No New York premiere history has been announced in available materials, but its placement in Brooklyn’s new-music ecosystem situates it inside the city’s ongoing debates about authorship and value. The writing trusts structure over spectacle, which feels pointed.

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    LAU NOAH'S "A DECADE OF MIRACLES" - A FOLK OPERA IN DEFENSE OF HUMAN ART

    LAU NOAH'S "A DECADE OF MIRACLES" - A FOLK OPERA IN DEFENSE OF HUMAN ART

    Lau Noah’s “A Decade of Miracles” frames her work as a folk opera and a defense of human-made art, presented in New York City at National Sawdust. The Spanish singer, instrumentalist, and composer moves between jazz vocabulary and songcraft, built around contrapuntal guitar and tightly braided vocal lines.