OPERA / MUSIC

Opera Lafayette: New York Baroque Festival 2023: The Era of Madame de Pompadour

TUESDAY – THURSDAY, MAY 9 – 11, 2023
6:30 PM TUESDAY
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY

El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue, Spanish Harlem, Manhattan

$30-$150 TUESDAY
$30-$110 WEDNESDAY
$30-$135 THURSDAY
TICKETS + INFORMATION

You’ve probably figured out how crazy this List is for French Baroque. Washington D.C.’s Opera Lafayette, dedicated to reviving French Baroque, Classical, and Early Romantic opera, moves up the Northeast Corridor with a festival of the stuff (with a dollop of the Italian music the period, whose extreme popularity induced the French to duke out the respective worths of the two styles in the famous Quarelle des Bouffons). It’s all good, but the clear pick of the festival is Tuesday night’s operatic double bill, including the continuation of what is somehow the world premiere run of Rameau’s Io. Someone had the brilliant idea of having Machine Dazzle do the costumes; he should perfectly capture the campiness of the French Baroque, with its rigidly encoded conventions of dramatic coneveyance.

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