MUSIC
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2019
7:30 PM

Fresh Squeezed Opera: 2019 Showcase
National Opera Center
330 Seventh Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan

$10
https://www.freshsqueezedopera.com/2019showcase

If you want to know why I keep saying we're living in a golden age of opera, go to this annual showcase of new chamber operas and see how good (and purely enjoyable) they are. People who are scared of New Classical Music (if any of them still bothers to read this List) should try this, and see how appealing this stuff is — both to listen to and to think about. I've never (knowingly) heard anything by any of the three composers on tonight's bill. I don't care.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: And then you can go around the corner and eat tons of delicious West African food for a pittance from the steam table at B&D Halal Food (NB: their online menu isn't like a tenth of it).