Works & Process presents The Glimmerglass Festival: The House on Mango Street by Derek Bermel andSandra Cisneros on April 7, 2025 at Guggenheim New York in the Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128 at 7pm. Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased at https://www.worksandprocess.org/calendar/works-and-process-at-the-guggenheim-glimmerglass-the-house-on-mango-street.
Learn more about this new opera prior to its world premiere at The Glimmerglass Festival in July 2025. A coming-of-age classic, Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street has been acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world. Through a series of interactions, from fascinating to funny to frightening, the novel’s young female protagonist comes to understand that storytelling is the medicine she can offer her community—and herself. Cisneros, winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, has teamed up with Grammy-nominated composer Derek Bermel for an opera inspired by her classic book.

Bermel and Cisneros will participate in a moderated discussion alongside The Glimmerglass Festival Artistic & General Director Rob Ainsley and dramaturg Kelley Rourke. Excerpts from the opera will feature acclaimed soprano Mikaela Bennett, who will create the role of Esperanza for the premiere.
The 2025 Festival runs from July 11-August 17, 2025.
Spring 2025 Opera Series made possible by Eugene and Jean Stark.
Works & Process Lead Donors
Lead funding provided by Adam and Abigail Flatto, Ford Foundation, Bart Friedman and Wendy Stein, Howard Gilman Foundation, Christian Humann Foundation, Leon Levy Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Stephen Kroll Reidy, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Caroline M. Sharp, The Evelyn Sharp Foundation, Eugene and Jean Stark, and Anonymous.
Additional support provided by Jody and John Arnhold, Jeff and Susan Campbell, Cate Caruso, Stuart H. Coleman and Meryl Rosofsky, Duke Dang and Charles E. Rosen, Lucy and Philip Dobrin, Elizabeth Sharp Edens and Wes Edens, The Fanwood Foundation, Agnes Gund, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Denise and Andrew Saul, Randall Sharp, and the Simian Foundation.
Works & Process is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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