OPERA
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MAY 10 & 11, 2019
7:00 PM

Henze: El Cimarrón
American Modern Opera Company
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$55-$65
https://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-live-arts/el-cimarron-19

A rarely heard peak of 20th Century opera, Henze's El Cimarrón tells the tale of a runaway slave in Colonial Cuba.  But musically and culturally, it breathes the air of the late 1960s, the time of its composition.  Here, the solo vocal part is assumed by the eloquent Davóne Tines -- just the singer you want to hear in it.  The riveting, partially aleatoric flute-guitar-percussion score is in excellentlocal hands.  God knows when you'll get another chance to see this performed.  An event.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I'm sure Henze would have wanted you to go to the Old Skool German Heidelberg (I crack myself up), one of the last remnants of old German Yorkville.