Mozart & Friends

OPERA
THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2020
7:30 PM

The Little Opera Theater of New York

$5-$50
https://www.musae.me/lotny/experiences/779/mozart-%2526-friends

A bunch of stuff from Mozart's early (and, it must be said, slight) opera Il Re Pastore, plus more stuff from the supernal Rameau and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a Black galant/early Classical composer we're happily going to be hearing a lot more of now.  But that's not the big news.  The big news is that this is AN IMMERSIVE 360º VR PRODUCTION.  If you don't have a VR headset, though — I have a cardboard one The Times gave me ages ago; one comes with a $50 ticket to this show (although how it'll get to you by the time of the performance is anybody's guess) — you can watch it in boring old non-immersive 2D).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Jeunesse Cocktail:  pour 1 oz. Suze, 2 oz. Cointreau, and 1 oz. lemon juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker.  Shake.  Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.