At National Sawdust, *The Other Soprano* reframes the familiar Soprano name away from organized crime and toward voice, text, and contemporary classical craft. Featuring Anthony Cheung alongside poets Arthur Sze and Victoria Chang, the performance treats language as a structural element, not ornament, and asks how identity is made through what is spoken and withheld. If this is a New York premiere, it lands in a city where new-music institutions regularly test the boundary between concert work and narrative. One clear takeaway is its insistence that “story” can be carried by timbre and syntax as much as plot.