MUSIC
SUNDAY, JUNE 17*
7:00 PM

Marisa Michelson:  Naamah's Ark
Master Voices
River to River Festival
Rockefeller Park
75 Battery Place, Battery Park City, Manhattan

Free
https://www.mastervoices.org/events/naamahs-ark/

This comes from the music-theater rather than the opera side of things:  composer Marisa Michelson is an accomplished composer in that field, and the cast features Victoria Clark, no less.  This oratorio tells the Flood story -- but from the point of view of Noah's wife Naamah, who was charged with the actual care of all those animals.  The libretto is by ace New Opera librettistRoyce Vavrek -- which is its own recommendation.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Danny Meyer's Blue Smoke doesn't serve the best barbecue in New York -- but you can do a lot, lot worse.