OPERA

Ben Neill: Fantini Futuro

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2022
7:00 PM

Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral
261 Mott Street, Nolita, Manhattan

$33.46; $22.86 students/seniors
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A fantasia — it has its subject time-travelling in from the 17th Century — on the life and music of the early Baroque trumpeter/composer Girolamo Fantini, whose music you’ve probably heard (if only while on hold) even if you don’t know it. Composer Ben Neill plays on his electro-acoustic Mutantrumpet (whatever that is), along with a counter-tenor with the astonishingly apt name Ryland Angel (I guess they couldn’t have a castrato time-travel in from the 17th Century) and the formidable Gwendolyn Toth on Old Saint Pat’s grand old 19th-Century pipe organ, as well as its less grand, but a little bit older, positive organ. Since this show is a benefit for the pipe organ’s restoration, one can’t help but wonder how it’ll sound.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let’s go to the newly revived former dive bar Milady’s to see what the great barkeep Julie Reiner is now doing with it.