At National Sawdust in Brooklyn, *A DUST IN TIME* arrives as a rock/pop opera built around live performance rather than orchestral spectacle. The program brings together Britton & The Sting, Lola Kirke with Odetta, Storey Littleton + Calder the Destroyer, Black Belt Eagle Scout and Mato Wayuhi with Ailani, Bruce Brubaker Live!, and a Friday the 13th dance party led by DJs Eli Escobar & Cosmo. As presented here, it reads like a New York–style hybrid: part opera, part concert bill, part club night. Its significance is local and current, using an experimental venue to test what “opera” can mean in the city now.