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Freedom and Faith, PubliQuartet

Hill Hall 145 E. Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

“A perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music.”—Washington Post Known for their fresh, creative perspective, PUBLIQuartet’s genre-bending programs range from 20th century masterworks to newly commissioned pieces. In Freedom and Faith, the string quartet celebrates underrepresented composers who have staked their places in history with virtuosity and power. Featuring works by Jessie Montgomery, Meredith... Read More →

$37

Fanm d’Ayiti: Nathalie Joachim with Spektral Quartet

Hill Hall 145 E. Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

A new evening-length work created by flutist and composer Nathalie Joachim of Flutronix, Fanm d’Ayiti (Women of Haiti) is a celebration of some of Haiti’s most iconic yet under recognized female artists, through new musical arrangements and compositions for flute, string quartet, vocals, and electronics seamlessly interwoven with recorded interviews telling stories of political exile,... Read More →

$37

Invisible(s): Cristina Pato and Mazz Swift

Hill Hall 145 E. Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

How might our social, political, and cultural landscape be different if history had been written by the people of forgotten communities? Featuring stirring new music commissioned or curated by Cristina Pato (of the Silkroad Ensemble, Cristina Pato Quartet, and more) this brand new work by the internationally acclaimed Galician bagpiper and passionate educator explores this... Read More →

$37
Recurring

Antigonick: Big Dance Theater

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

With its inspired use of dance, music, text, and visual design, Big Dance Theater returns to Carolina Performing Arts with Antigonick: a “popup play under construction” of renowned poet and classicist Anne Carson’s one-act, radical-feminist, philosophical take on Sophocles’ Antigone. Using Carson’s text, Annie-B Parson braids disparate strands into a multi-dimensional performance featuring the deft... Read More →

$27

The Eve Project: Martha Graham Dance Company

Memorial Hall 114 E. Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

“The EVE Project celebrates female power.” –New York Times Martha Graham Dance Company returns to Carolina Performing Arts with stunning new works from The EVE Project, created in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the 19th Amendment and featuring the work of women choreographers and composers. Alongside classic repertory highlighting Graham heroines and anti-heroines, The... Read More →

Lucia Lucas, Baritone

Hill Hall 145 E. Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

Baritone Lucia Lucas has emerged as a performer guaranteed to “shatter opera’s glass ceiling” (NewNowNext). The first known transgender opera singer to star in a lead role in the US, Lucas and her powerful voice have made waves at opera houses across the globe. Now, the critically acclaimed singer makes her Carolina Performing Arts debut.

$37
Recurring

Edna Lewis

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The impact of the late Southern chef Edna Lewis on American cuisine—and generations of people—cannot be overstated. Inspired by Hilton Als’ childhood recollections of admiring Lewis from afar during her years in New York City, Edna Lewis is a meditative love letter to her by a celebrated writer. Featuring the sensational Helga Davis (CPA artist-in-residence,... Read More →

$27

Johnny Gandelsman, violin

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Grammy-winning violinist, member of Brooklyn Rider and Silkroad Ensemble, and longtime friend to Carolina Performing Arts Johnny Gandelsman returns for his fifteenth performance at CPA, with a solo program that highlights his singular talent for reinventing music of the classical canon—this time, performing Bach’s Cello Suites on his violin.

$27
Recurring

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Memorial Hall 114 E. Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

With a history spanning more than six decades, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has changed the landscape of arts in America and beyond. Hewing to Alvin Ailey’s original mission, the company presents important works of the past while continuing to innovate. A valued longtime artistic partner to Carolina Performing Arts, the company has performed on... Read More →

Recurring

As One, a Chamber Opera

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

There is Hannah before, and there is Hannah after. In As One, two voices share the part of a sole transgender protagonist, tracing Hannah’s experiences from her youth in a small town to her college years. CPA’s staging of this powerful chamber opera will include locally based advisors and cast members, including Marc Callahan from... Read More →

$27