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About

Paul headshot by Aleks Karjaka Paul Pinto is a writer, composer, performer, opera-sermonizer, and multi-disciplinary dabbler who makes music, new media, micro-theatres and durational performance by himself and with his friends. Some of those friends include the collectives thingNY, Varispeed and LoveLoveLove. A few favorite projects include Patriots with Jeffrey Young, Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives with Varispeed, Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King, and the cyclorama video installation Whiteness with Kameron Neal. He sang and danced on Broadway in Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, and wrote and performed in the electronic opera Thomas Paine in Violence starring Joan LaBarbara. Recent commissions and partnerships include HERE Arts, Prototype Festival, Colgate University, The Fisher Center, the Look + Listen Festival, American Opera Projects, Opera America, Culturehub, LaMaMa, Quince Ensemble, WNET All Arts, Media Art Xchange, The Rhythm Method, Yarn/Wire, Gelsey Bell and Kristin Marting.

09.06.25 POSTPONED TO SPRING 2026
River Songs a performance party

Singers, instrumentalists, installation, and lighting weave along the Hackensack River waterfront, culminating in a sunset procession to the waterʼs edge and a party that drifts into the night.
Lincoln Park West. Jersey City.

09.12.25-09.14.25
Celestial Excursions an opera by Robert Ashley

Roulette. Brooklyn.

10.16.25
I Wonder If This Ground Has Anything To Say: a treaty illumination by Jerome Kitzke

thingNY premieres this epic new work for singing, acting instrumentalists.
Kaufman Music Center. New York.

12.04.25-12.06.25
Octet (String Quartet No. 3)

The Rhythm Method and Bergamot Quartets premiere this surgical new work for video and live performers.
Culturehub. New York.

2.13.26-2.22.26
Mano a Mano [world premiere]

An operatic monodrama about toxic masculinity. Directed by Kristin Marting.
La MaMa. New York.

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