Cher public, if you’re anything like La Cieca (pictured), you won’t have any time for lounging about in your silk pyjamas this week because the opera schedule is such a glamorous whirlwind one scarcely has time to breathe!
The “Lois” events for the week of November 5-11:
November 5: Nabucco at the Metropolitan Opera features mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti raising her sights to the role of Abigaille.
November 6: The Richard Tucker Gala at Avery Fisher Hall lauds Angela Meade, and La Cieca hears that a certain elusive diva may make a surprise appearance, but after all, she is a rebellious bird that no one can tame, so…
November 7: Not much point in taking in that dreary Don Giovanni at the Met again unless you haven’t caught Mariusz yet. Better to stay home and wallow in a double bill of The Postman Always Rings Twice and The Bad and the Beautiful on TCM.
November 8: Opera Orchestra of New York is back with a vengeance, presenting Adriana Lecouvreur at Carnegie Hall with a cast that can only be described as “mouth-watering”: Angela Gheorghiu and Jonas Kaufmann, figuratively and literally, respectively.
November 9: Evil Ed lookalike Nico Muhly premieres his second opera so far this year when Gotham Chamber Opera and Music-Theatre Group present his Dark Sisters at Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.
November 10: American Lyric Theater does “The Poe Project,” concert versions of a triptych of Edgar Allaesque operas, at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music.
November 11: Yes, it’s that time of year again: Rolex Arts Weekend has sneaked up on us and the next thing you know Jessye Norman and Paul Holdengraber are discussing issues and things at the Celeste Bartos Forum of The New York Public Library.
For details on these and the myriad of other operatic options available next week, please consult the New York Opera Calendar.
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