Jeremy Schonfeld: Iron & Coal

OPERA
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 & 11, 2020
8:00 PM

PROTOTYPE Festival
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

$35-$75
http://prototypefestival.org/shows/iron-and-coal/

Uh-oh:  a rock opera!  About the relationship between a father and a son in the shadow of the Holocaust (the composer's own father having been a survivor).  The participation of the ineffable Rinde Eckert and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus as performers, and the invaluable David Bloom not only as conductor of his crack New Music chamber orchestra Contemporaneus but as Music Director and arranger, are good signs (well, the need for an arranger is a bad sign).  But if this is anything like the hit single Jeremy Schonfeld wrote a couple of years ago, we may be in for a long night.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Good Israeli out of the massive oven at Taboon.