Who: New Camerata Opera
What: French opera double bill
Where: Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford St., Brooklyn
When: Friday, September 16 and 23, and Saturday, September 17 and 24, $25-$80, 8:00
Why: New Camerata Opera (NCO) will present a double bill of French one-act operas dealing with time on Friday and Saturday at Irondale Center in Brooklyn to kick off the company’s seventh season. With music director and conductor Kamal Khan and stage director John de los Santos, NCO will perform composer Lili Boulanger and librettist Eugène Adenis’s Faust et Hélène, adapted from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s retelling and focusing on the deal Faust makes with Méphistophélès. That will be followed by Maurice Ravel’s L’heure espagnole, in which clockmaker Torquemada and his wife, Concepción, take stock of her infidelity. The cast features Eva Parr and Tesia Kwarteng as Concepción and Hélène, Victor Khodadad and Chris Carr as Faust and Gonzalve, Markel Reed and Kyle Oliver as Méphistophélès and Ramiro, Gabriel Hernandez and Anthony Laciura as Torquemada, and Angky Budiardjono and Andy Dwan as Don Iñigo Gomez, with a seventeen-person orchestra and costumes by Ashley Soliman, lighting by Joshua Rose, and projections and set design by Atom Moore.