An OTBKB reader wrote in with this great tip about a chamber opera at BAM this weekend.

Douglas J. Cuomo’s chamber opera is opening tomorrow at BAM. It’s a beautiful piece based on the Bhagadvad
Gita, and has been written about in the Times and other places. You can
go to www.arjuna’sdilemma.com for more info as well.

Douglas J. Cuomo has composed highly acclaimed and original music
for concert and theatrical stages, television, and film. His music,
with influences from jazz, world music, classical, and popular sources,
is as personal, distinctive, and recognizable as it is wide-ranging.
His compositions range from well-known television themes — for Sex and the City and Now with Bill Moyers, among others — to evening-length works for theater, including Arjuna’s Dilemma, an opera-oratorio based on the story of the Bhagavad Gita.

Tickets are still available for Arjuna’s Dilemma
at BAM, with performances on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday (Nov. 5,
7, & 8) at 7:30 pm. 

If you’d like a peek at the production, a
brief video trailer is on view at http://douglasjcuomo.com/news.html.  Advance interest in the work has been keen, thanks to previews in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York magazine, Time Out New York, and other publications.

To buy tickets, visit http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=120.  If you’re planning to attend Arjuna’s Dilemma,
bear in mind that it take place at BAM’s intimate and handsome Harvey
Theater, 651 Fulton St. (at Rockwell Pl.), rather than the big Academy
of Music building at Lafayette and Ashland.  And if you can’t make it
to the show, the CD is available from Amazon, iTunes, and the Innova
Recordings website (www.innova.mu).