OPERA

A. Gabrieli: Edipo Tirranno

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2022
8:00 PM

Christ & St. Stephen’s Church
120 West 69th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan

Free
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Andrea Gabrieli (the senior and less famous Gabrieli) wrote this opera on Sophocles’s Œdipus Rex for the opening of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza in 1585. But although that remains one of the most famous opera houses in world (at least on historical and architectural grounds), this piece — performed only twice at that time — dropped out of the repertoire like a stone. Be the first one on your block to hear it!

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m sending you back to the extremely pleasant neighborhood French bistro Le Boite en Bois.