OPERA
MONDAY & TUESDAY, AUGUST 20 & 21
7:30 PM


dell'Arte Opera Ensemble Mozart & Salieri Festival
La Mama
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan

$32-$36; $23-$32 seniors; $22 students
http://dellarteopera.org/project/mozart-salieri-scenes-2018/

The lovable dell'Arte Opera Ensemble puts on modest, intimate opera productions every Summer, featuring a bevy of promising young singers.  This Summer they're doing a Mozart/Salieri Festival, featuring those two famous colleagues/rivals/murderer-and-victim (depending on whom you believe).  This show features extracts from Mozart and Salieri operas; but also, more interestingly, Rimsky-Korsakov's very rare one-act opera about the two composers -- which is based on a Pushkin verse drama that originated the famous libel that Salieri murdered Mozart.  It's surprising and intriguing that one of the Music Directors is the contemporary composer and music-theater artiste Whitney George.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Chinese-style spicy crawfish and Peking street food specialist Le Sia is only going to become more of a clusterfuck now that it's had its close-up.  But it's open late, so maybe a post-performance visit will be viable.