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Canzone and calzone? How about opera and orecchiette! If musica and minestrone are your passions, there are several New York City restaurants that serve up both dinner and live opera, oftentimes featuring singers with national and international experience. You can enjoy a medley of seafood and serenades, antipasti and arias. It's a veritable opera buffet featuring dinner plus music by professional opera singers.
Evening Out for a Song
Whether you're a tourist visiting the Big Apple, a New Yorker who wants a unique dining experience, or an opera aficionado who lives to hear the divas dish it out, restaurants with live opera provide two civilized pleasures in one evening. Performers belt out opera favorites and show tunes, and everyone gets a view of the singers.
Whether it's La Bohème or La Traviata, Les Mis or Phantom, there's a chorus that will accompany any meal. It might not be the Three Tenors, but then again, you can't request your favorite aria for dessert at the Metropolitan Opera. You can get your fill of the classics at the restaurants listed below, but call ahead to confirm performance times and dates.
Appetito Ristorante
47 West 39th St (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
(212) 391-5286
Opera: Fri 7 PM
Caffe Taci
10 Waverly Place (at Mercer Street)
(212) 678-5345
Opera: Fri-Sat, sets @ 9 PM and 10:30 PM
Da Tommaso
1464 86th Street at Bay 8th Street
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
(718) 236-9883
Opera: Wed-Sat 7:30 PM
Rossini's
108 East 38th Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues)
(212) 683-0135
Opera: Sat 8 PM
Mese della Cultura Italiana
If a musical meal isn't enough to satisfy your operatic hunger, the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York is featuring an entire month of sopranos and tenors. For more than a quarter century, the committee has organized special events, concerts, exhibits, and lectures to celebrate Italian culture in New York, the largest Italian city outside Italy. Each year focuses on a specific theme representative of the history and culture of Italy and Italian Americans. In 2003 the focus is on Italian opera, celebrating the centennial of Enrico Caruso's debut in America. Throughout the month of October there are a number of special events planned to commemorate the date.
