Newtown Odyssey premiere on Newtown Creek

October 27, 2023

Three years in the making, Newtown Odyssey - an open-air opera on, for & about a creek received its World Premiere on Newtown Creek Sept. 9 & 10, 2023. Funded by grants from the NEA, Creative Capital and the Puffin Foundation, writer Dana Spiotta, artist Marie Lorenz and Kurt Rohde worked an exceptional team of artists creating this one of a kind open-air production on the famed Super Fund site.

Kurt Rohde

Violist and composer Kurt Rohde is a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Radcliffe-Harvard Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lydian String Quartet Commission Prize, and commission awards from the Barlow, Fromm, Hanson, and Koussevitzky Foundations, Creative Capital, the NEA, and New Music/USA. Kurt has received the Academy Award, Charles Ives Fellowship, and Wise-Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Kurt teaches at UC Davis and is the Artistic Director of the Composers Conference.