OPERA

Lisa Despain: The Song of the Nightingale

THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 23, 2023 (also on SEPTEMBER 28 – 30 at another location)
12:30 & 7:00 PM THURSDAY
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY

On Site Opera
Manhattan West Plaza
395 9th Avenue, Hudson Yards, Manhattan

Free
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It takes some nerve to set an opera on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale, since there’s already a really good one. Especially when composer Lisa Despain writes like it was 100 years ago. But I love Western classical music from 100 years ago. Including, in fact, Stravinsky’s original Соловей (better known as Le Rossignol).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Theoretically boring, in practice delicious, Italian from the oven at Ci Siamo.