Opera

Jackie O

1 upcoming performance in New York

Michael Daugherty’s *Jackie O* is a two-act chamber opera that filters the public life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through the sounds and media glare of late-1960s America. Written with librettist Wayne Koestenbaum, it treats celebrity as a kind of modern mythology, scored with pop and rock inflections. At LPR (Le Poisson Rouge), the work lands naturally in New York’s long conversation between downtown music and political iconography. Its sharpest insight is how it makes spectacle audible without excusing it.