Celebrate BOMB’s Spring Issue with an exclusive preview from Lincoln in the Bardo, an opera featuring music by BOMB contributor Missy Mazzoli. Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo, based on the book by George Saunders, premieres at the Metropolitan Opera in October 2026.
Director Lileana Blain-Cruz joins Missy Mazzoli in conversation after the performance.
This event is a part of BOMB’s ANALOG/DIALOG series—a partnership with Ace Hotel Brooklyn through which BOMB Magazine invites artist/s for an intimate dialogue and performance to explore what inspires them, what challenges them, where they are, and where they want to go.
Details:
6:30 PM Doors
7:00 PM Performance
7:25 PM Conversation & Q&A
Cash Bar
Location:
The Atrium at Ace Hotel Brooklyn
252 Schermerhorn St.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
All ticket holders will receive the spring issue of BOMB Magazine.
Excerpts of Lincoln in the Bardo, presented by the Metropolitan Opera by Missy Mazzoli, libretto by Royce Vavrek, based on the novel by George Saunders, dir. Lileana Blain-Cruz.
About Lincoln in the Bardo: Following the death of his 11-year-old son, the grief-stricken Abraham Lincoln makes nightly pilgrimages to the family crypt. Meanwhile, the spirits of the graveyard’s dead linger in a strange limbo between death and the afterlife, where ghosts complain, commiserate, and quarrel—and a struggle erupts over the boy’s soul.
In BOMB’s Spring 2025 Issue, Mazzoli interviews author Karen Russell, and the pair discuss their upcoming collaboration on a new opera, The Galloping Cure.