OPERA
THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, MAY 31 & JUNE 2 - 3 (continuing through JUNE 4)
7:30 PM THURSDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY

Charles Wourinen:  Brokeback Mountain
New York City Opera
Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center
10 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$10-$150
https://nycopera.com/brokeback-mountain/

Uptown Academic Modernist Charles Wourinen isn't a guy you'd normally go to for sentiment.  So his decision to set Annie Proulx's famous short story (also of course made into a famous movie) seems like more evidence of the détente-moving-to-an-entente between Uptown and Downtown.  Even the Modernists may be loosening up.  Wonder what it'll sound like?

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Gabriel's is a good illustration of The March Of Time as it affects restaurants.  When the place opened 25 or so years ago, it was still fairly uncommon to find Italian-Italian restaurants in New York (as opposed to the then-prevalent "Red Sauce" Italian-American, now undergoing a quasi-ironic revival).  So the place had a certain cachet.  Now the City is overriden with such restaurants, and Gabriel's is nothing more than a good reliable place to eat.  That can be enough, though.