OPERA
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, MAY 15 & 16, 2019
7:00 PM

Vivier: Kopernikus
22 Boerum Place, Downtown, Brooklyn

$20
https://www.as-coa.org/events/kopernikus

The late (murdered by some rough trade he picked up) Canadian crypto-Spectralist composer Claude Vivier* is yet another whose works would attain some popularity if only they were played more often.  The chance to see his shimmeringly complex opera Kopernikus is a rare bounty.  The non-linear book concerns a young woman's transition into death, with her encountering such characters as Lewis Carroll, Mozart, the Queen of the Night, Tristan and Isolde, and (natch) Copernicus along the way.  That the peerless International Contemporary Ensemble is playing this riveting music is icing on the cake.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  This show will end early enough for you to cap off the night at Brooklyn Red Sauce classic (with a mod half of the menu as well, just for fun) Queen.