The Seasons

Vivaldi’s best known work collides with a modern, urgent libretto addressing creativity in a time of climate crisis.

A group of contemporary artists comes to a retreat in nature to make art. They feel the emotional weather inside them more than they feel the weather outside. But extreme weather affects them without warning and changes their lives forever. The Seasons is a meditation on the relationship between our contemporary moment, and Vivaldi’s iconic music that appreciates the harmonious seasons. The Four Seasons, paired with additional arias and ensembles by Vivaldi, becomes an occasion to see our own disordered seasons more clearly.