Lincoln in the Bardo New York Performances

Presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, *Lincoln in the Bardo* is a dance-forward staging of The Metropolitan Opera’s work, with music by Missy Mazzoli and libretto by Royce Vavrek, featuring artists including Miami City Ballet and Patricia Delgado. The piece draws on George Saunders’s 2017 novel, using a chorus of voices to frame Abraham Lincoln’s private grief after the death of his son. In New York, its presence inside the Guggenheim places a new American opera in dialogue with the city’s museum culture and performance institutions. One clear effect is how movement becomes a narrative instrument, not ornament.