OPERA
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2018
7:30 PM

Jommelli: Cerere Placata
Opera Lafayette
The Times Center
242 West 41st Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$25-$120
http://operalafayette.org/20182019-season/

Opera Lafayette, Washington, DC's period-instruments company devoted to historic French opera, returns with a piece by a composer who wasn't French, but was certainly French-influenced and -influencing.  Along with Gluck,Jommelli championed the reform of opera after the Baroque, urging it into the more streamlined and dramatically coherent form we know now.  But perhaps because he sprang from the Neapolitan School, Jommelli had a greater melodic gift than Gluck (not hard, many would remark).  Worth checking out.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Is it too lazy to note that The Times Center is right next door to a branch of Wolfgang's Steakhouse?  That'd be for before the show.  After, maybe Southern-style drinks and pub grub at Printers Alley.