Garrett Fischer: Blood Moon

OPERA
THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 11 & 12, 2020 (continuing through JANUARY 17)
7:30 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY

PROTOTYPE Festival
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on East 25th Street), Rose Hill, Manhattan

$30-$75
http://prototypefestival.org/shows/blood-moon/

Composer Garrett Fischer continues his series of operas based on Noh plays, which have heretofore included much truly attractive and dramatically effective music.  This one has the benefit of a libretto by Ellen McLaughlin and direction by Rachel Dickstein — two names that should by themselves raise the interest of habitual New York theatergoers.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I am pleased to introduce you to Veronika, mega-restaurateur Steven Starr's new grand cafe in the Fotografiska Museum.  It supposedly apes grand cafes in Northern France, Austria, and Central Europe — a combination that I, for one, find irresistible.  As chef, Starr has brought in Robert Aikens, an Englishman who some New Yorkers fondly recall for his work as the opening chef at The Peacock — a restaurant that was good only as long as Aikens was running the kitchen.