Staged 2019, LA Philharmonic, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, USA
“Meredith Monk’s transcendent wordless opera Atlas charts the spiritual growth of the 19th-century explorer Alexandra David-Néel. The young girl encounters travel companions and spirit guides within a 12-meter-diameter sphere, scored with webs of international trade and travel routes. The form encompassed Monk’s radiant vision of a possible alternative to the current world order.”
—Es Devlin