Opera pops up at NYC garage, dive bar, basketball court

By Verena Dobnik, The Associated Press

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Opera has been popping up recently at the most unlikely New York places: a revamped garage, a dive bar, a basketball court and even an old aircraft carrier, to name a few.

It’s part of a festival with an in-your-face goal — to bring this once grandiose art form to ordinary places where people hang out.

The New York Opera Fest 2017 has drawn casual spectators who may never have gone to a plush theatre production.

On Saturday, composer Darius Milhaud’s (pronounced mee-YOH’) “The Guilty Mother” will get its U.S. premiere in the onetime garage on Manhattan’s West Side — a story rife with adultery and intrigue.

A Brooklyn basketball court hosted a hip-hop opera called “Bounce,” and Bizet’s “Carmen” was heard in a neighbourhood bar.

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