KAFKA FRAGMENTS
by György Kurtág
dir. by Peter Sellars
with Dawn Upshaw and Geoff Nuttal
images by David Michalek
Zankell Hall, NYC, 2005
John Jay College, NYC, 2008
costume design
Using forty excerpts primarily from Kafka's letters and diaries, Kurtág spins a kaleidoscopic web of musical styles representing extreme and disparate moments within a life.