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Peter Sellars's Kafka Fragments with Dawn Upshaw

Performing Arts - Other | November 23 | 7 p.m. |  Zellerbach Playhouse

Featured Performers: Dawn Upshaw, soprano, Cal Performances; Geoff Nutall, violin, Cal Performances

Director: Peter Sellars, director, Cal Performances

Sponsor: Cal Performances

Few present at the 2005 Carnegie Hall production of György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments, directed by Peter Sellars and performed by Dawn Upshaw and Geoff Nuttall, will forget the searing experience. Set musically to excerpts from Kafka's diaries and letters, this devastating two-character drama astonished audiences and critics alike. The renowned Upshaw portrays an isolated and overwhelmed housewife, singing this complex work "with musical command, poignant vulnerability, and at times unhinged intensity" (New York Times). The production is further distinguished by Geoff Nuttall's intensely dramatic accompaniment and Peter Sellar's wrenching and incisive direction. This special presentation, reuniting the original artists, will be seen in only three venues nationwide.

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Tickets required: $68 Available through the Cal Performances Ticket Office at Zellerbach Hall; at (510) 642-9988 to charge by phone; online at www.calperformances.org; and at the door.,  **Rush tickets: UCB students, $10; UCB faculty and staff (UCB ID required) and seniors age 65 or older, $15; all other community members, $20. Sales are limited to one ticket per person; all sales are cash only. Rush tickets are announced two hours prior to a performance and are available in person only at the Ticket Office beginning 1 hour before the performance; quantities may be limited. Information is available at 510-642-9988, press 2 for the rush hotline.

Ticket info: Half-price tickets are available for purchase by UC Berkeley students for all performances. Tickets go on sale August 10. Buy tickets online, or by calling Cal Performances Box Office at 510-642-9988.

Event Contact: 510-642-9988