Opera

A Decade of Miracles

1 upcoming performance in New York

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.