New York City Opera announced on Tuesday that its 2013-2014 season would feature the American premiere of two operas, “Anna Nicole,†by Mark-Anthony Turnage, based on the paparazzi-filled life and death of Anna Nicole Smith, and  “Endimione,†a little-known and rarely staged work composed by Johann Christian Bach in 1772.
The coming season, like the current one, consists of just four productions as the company, which left Lincoln Center after the 2010-11 season, continues a scaled-down, nomadic existence.
“Anna Nicole,†which is being co-produced by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, will open BAM’s 2013 Next Wave Festival in September. “Endimione,†directed by Michael Counts, will be performed Feb 8-16 at El Museo del Barrio in Manhattan. Later that month and continuing into March City Opera will return to Brooklyn for Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle†(1911), which is being co-produced with St. Ann’s Warehouse. The production, originally staged by Daniel Kramer, will fill the Warehouse’s entire 13,000-square-foot space.
The company then crosses the river back to Manhattan for a new production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,†scheduled to appear at New York City Center in April 2014. “Figaro†is the third of three Mozart operas that Christopher Alden is directing for City Opera. The coming season marks the first to be overseen by City Opera’s new music director, Jayce Ogren.
