OPERA
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2018
VARIOUS TIMES STARTING AT 7:00 PM

The High Line
Starts at Gansevoort St. & Washington Street entrance, Meatpacking District, Manhattan
Ends at West 34th Street between 11th Street & 12th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

Free (registration required)
https://milelongopera.com/

The list of creators of this outdoor site-specific "opera" (wanna bet it's more like an oratorio?) is almost comically high-powered:  David Lang, Anne Carson,Claudia Rankine, Lynsey Peisinger, Diller's architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro.  The work, to be performed along the entirety of the High Line (you start at at the south end and end up at the north) by a massive choir assembled from all five boroughs, purports to present a biography of the transitional time of 7 PM through stories gathered from various New Yorkers.  Who cares what it's about, though?  This is going to be spectacular, one of the big events of the season.  Of course all available spots are taken; there'll be a standby line.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Before the show, pan-Chinese at the new Chelsea branch of Hao Noodle, which informants have told me is even better than the Greenwich Village original.  After the show, drinks and Southern-inflected food and snacks at Porchlight.