when it rains…

Rosybrook


The Sunday New York Times will have another Rosenbach-associated piece, this time about Ben Katchor’s opera The Rosenbach Company. The opera was commissioned by the Rosenbach in 2003, and performed at the Philly Live Arts/Fringe in 2004. If you missed it then, it’s being performed at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre in New York April 10, 17, and 24. Thus the article.

One crucial point not mentioned there–the whole thing was funded by the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative. PEI, which is in turn funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, has helped the Rosenbach do some of its best programs in the last few years & we are particularly indebted to Paula Marincola, its director, for all her help and advice.

9 thoughts on “when it rains…”

  1. Is there any possibility that The Rosenbach Brothers musical has been videotaped at either The Philly Fringe Festival or at its recent Joe’s Pub engagement? I would have loved to have seen this show in Phila. and might have gone to NYC had I known about the production. As a recent visitor to The Rosenbach Museum and Library and a native Philadelphian, I am indeed very interested in the musical’s subject matter and wonder why the people at The Rosenbach haven’t arranged to have an extended run of the show at a small theatre space in Philadelphia. After all, it is the best possible publicity tie-in for the museum that your venerable institution has ever had in recent memory.
    I would appreciate an answer to this blog from Bill Adair. My e-mail address is: [email protected]
    Thank you, Bruce F. Winston

  2. MASS MoCA is also having a show of The Rosenbach Company, on Saturday, July 8 at 8 PM.

    Tickets are $20 orchestra, $16 mezzanine. To puchase tickets, call the box office at (413) MoCA 111, or visit http://www.massmoca.org.

    MASS MoCA is in North Adams, in northern Berkshire County. Directions are available on our website.

  3. is there a chance of another performance of The Rosenbach Opera? I missed it at MassMoca, during a recent visit. I live in Philadelphia! and would love to see it here! Thanks, Lesley valdes

  4. also, i would like to get in touch with the performers from MassMoca…as I am a working critic..thanks, Lesley Valdes
    212 952 0805
    or [email protected] (WRTI. 90.1 fm, classical and jazz radio)

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