Opera in the Heights Announces 2019–2020 season, including premiere of The Leader

Opera in the Heights has just announced its 2019–2020 line-up, which will include a collaboration with Musiqa in February 2020. As part of a new initiative, their New Works Festival will feature a double-bill of chamber opera premières on February 23rd and 29th: Anthony Brandt’s Kassandra and Karim Al-Zand’s The Leader, both conducted by OH artistic director Eiki Isomura. The libretto of The Leader is drawn from a short one-act play by French-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco. The work is a comic opera, an absurdist political satire about authoritarianism, groupthink and the cult of personality.