an opera about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
Conceived by composer Judd Greenstein,
former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith,
and visual artist and director Joshua Frankel

"Thoughtful depiction of the conflict and unusually imaginative, multimedia form... Mr. Frankel’s stunning animations, moving in rhythm with the music, are an equal storytelling element." —Heidi Waleson, Wall Street Journal

"Audiences... will be dazzled by Tracy K. Smith's springloaded words zipping through the opera's sound world, redolent of Monk, Saariaho, and Glass." —Lev Bratishenko, Opera Canada

Selected press for A Marvelous Order:
Review in the The Wall Street Journal
"Talk Of The Town" in the The New Yorker
Excerpt performance at Brooklyn Public Library discussed in The New York Times and on WNYC
Tracy K. Smith appointed U.S. Poet Laureate - NPR
Interview with Judd and Josh in Urban Omnibus
Magazines including Art Forum, Pin-Up, Architect, Azure (Canada), STAD (Sweden)
WNYC's On The Media
KCRW's Design and Architecture
Brooklyn Magazine
Fast Co. Design
The Forward
Bloomberg
Curbed


Animation from AMO

Film Still from animation in A Marvelous Order