OPERA
THURSDAY - SUNDAY, MAY 2 - 5, 2019
8:00 PM THURSDAY - SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

Stradella: La Susanna
Hearbeat Opera/Lafayette Opera
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

$25-$135
https://www.heartbeatopera.org/la-susanna

New York's political opera company Heartbeat Opera teams with Washington, D.C.'s period opera company Opera Lafayette for one of many Baroque retellings of the "Susanna and the Elders" apocryphal addition to the BiblicalBook of Daniel.  Given Heartbeat's proclivities, one can assume that this story of a young woman falsely accused of sexual misconduct by powerful older men who want to use her sexually will be given solid contemporary resonance.  Alessandro Stradella, a star during his lifetime, is yet another of those really good Baroque composers whose music you don't get to hear enough; this is in fact a U.S. premiere.  Given the tiny size of the venue, I'm kind of shocked there are still tickets available.  Go.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Let's try the new Fort Greene branch of Peaches HotHouse, featuring Nashville-style Hot Chicken.