Opera Omnia first popped up in 2008 with a staging of Claudio Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea. The catch? They did it at Greenwich Village's (Le) Poisson Rouge, a space that's accustomed to indie rock and string quartet, but not so much seventeenth-century opera. The company is back this week with a staging of Francesco Cavalli's Giasone, a now rarely performed work that was, it is said, the most popular of its day. It's a rare treat to hear early opera other than Monteverdi—and even rarer to hear it in a club that's probably about the size of the hall where it premiered.
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