OPERA
MONDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 7 & 10, 2019
8:00 PM MONDAY & THURSDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$30-$445
https://www.metopera.org/season/2019-20-season/orfeo-ed-euridice/

Gluck's reform opera is genuinely touching (even if he forces on a stupid happy ending) and has at least one really great aria — and Gluck's rather hieratic style is perfect for retelling of timeless myth. Mark Morris's whimsical-but-stark-when-it-needs-to-be production is one of the Met's current best (not the competition is fierce). Bi heroine and rising-star mezzo Jamie Barton assumes the role of Orfeo; fan favorite Hei-Kyong Hong is Euridice.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Best of all, this opera is SHORT; for once you don't have to worry about finding someplace to eat and drink afterward. Let's celebrate by going to Boulud Sud for pan-Mediterranean.