OPERA
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 13 & 14, 2019 (continuing through APRIL 18)
8:00 PM SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY

Huang Ruo:  Bound
Baruch Performing Arts Center, Baruch College
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on 25th Street), Rose Hill, Manhattan

$16-$36
https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/calendar/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/15/2018&todate=5/3/2019&display=Day&type=private&eventidn=58111&view=EventDetails&information_id=750423

Composer Huang Ruo has been on a roll lately.  His style, combining Western and Chinese classical and vernacular elements, is enormously appealing -- and he's shown himself to be a capable musical dramatist.  So expectations for this new opera are high.  Focussing on a Vietnamese immigrant family, it explores the conflicts between perserving cultural heritage and attaining success and acceptance in America.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  The bar at Eleven Madison Park is surprisingly approachable (attitudinally if not economically).  And, putting the excellent bar menu aside, the cocktails are some of the best in any New York restaurant.