Piazzolla: Maria de Buenos Aires

OPERA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2018
7:00 PM

New York City Opera
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$10-$50
https://nycopera.com/shows/maria-de-buenos-aires/

Astor Piazzolla's Nuevo Tango chamber opera is really good.  I mean, reallygood.  (Piazzolla didn't study with Nadia Boulanger for nothing.)  You'll have two chances to see it this season:  this well-received production, imported from Atlanta (where it was also performed in an alternative venue) by the foundering City Opera; and what should be a funkier, racier production by Bare Opera next Spring (although it shouldn't be ignored that this current production has the benefit of a renowned exponent of the title role and two first-rate tango dancers in the cast).  I say, why choose?  If you see it now, you'll want to see it again in the Spring.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Before, try everybody's new favorite Berber Street Food, featuring food of North Africa and the African diaspora.  Afterward, it may be totally repetitious and unimaginative of me, but there is no way all this tango and sex (is that redundant?) won't put you in the mood for cocktails.  Hence, Existing Conditions (the food is good, too).