{"id":291023,"date":"2025-10-10T04:19:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/291023\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T04:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:19:19","slug":"real-housewives-of-new-york-opera-gets-one-night-only-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/291023\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Housewives of New York opera gets one-night-only performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it, only an opera could truly capture the fights, the passions and the over-the-top emotions of the women who built Bravo, the Real Housewives.\u00a0Which is one reason why, on Monday, October 20, The Real Housewives of New York City: An Opera\u00a0will receive\u00a0a\u00a0one-night-only concert debut at The Cutting Room. And while there\u2019s no shortage of Bravo-inspired parodies in the world, this one arrives with serious musical theater chops, a Juilliard pedigree or two, and Oh, Mary!\u00a0scene-stealer Hannah Solow channeling none other than Ramona Singer herself.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that Ramona Singer\u2014the Pinot Grigio-pouring, wide-eyed, barely-contained burst of Upper East Side id. For Solow, fresh off her gleefully unhinged turn in Cole Escola\u2019s Oh, Mary!, it\u2019s a dream role; her knack for riding chaos right to the brink make her the perfect muse for a project that treats Bravo\u2019s high drama with bel canto reverence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/this-iconic-real-housewives-star-is-collabing-with-schmackarys-on-a-caviar-topped-cookie-091725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This iconic Real Housewives star is collabing with Schmackary\u2019s on a caviar-topped cookie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The story, by composer-lyricist Sharon Kenny and bookwriter Kirsten Guenther, turns Tinsley Mortimer\u2019s tabloid-tinted fairy tale into a fantasia. On her Plaza Hotel wedding day, Tinsley (Christine Taylor Price) takes a dramatic tumble down the aisle and lands in Dorinda&#8217;s Bluestone Manor, now reimagined as a glittering bridal purgatory. There, she\u2019s haunted (and\u00a0possibly helped) by ghosts of Housewives past: Countess Luann (Lauren Blackman), Dorinda Medley (Stephanie Gibson), Sonja Morgan (Jessie Hooker Bailey), and of course, Ramona. Tony nominee Barbara Walsh plays Tinsley\u2019s mother, Dale Mercer, while Colin Hanlon appears as a divinely omnipresent Andy Cohen. Frank DiLella will narrate.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Mary Birnbaum with musical direction by Adam Laird (Beetlejuice), the show\u2019s creative team shares a pedigree more Lincoln Center than BravoCon. Still, this project was born from deep fandom (and maybe a martini or two). After performing together at Feinstein\u2019s at the Regency (a site forever immortalized in Housewives lore), Kenny and Guenther found themselves in lockdown, bingeing old episodes and joking about writing \u201csomething\u00a0about our friends.\u201d From there, the RHONY Opera took shape as a love letter, both satirical and sincere, to the women who made \u201cmention it all\u201d a mantra.<\/p>\n<p>If Oh, Mary!\u00a0proved that downtown absurdism could thrive on Broadway, The Real Housewives of New York City: An Opera\u00a0might prove that reality TV can be grand opera material, complete with high society, high drama and yes, high C\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Real Housewives of New York City: An Opera\u00a0plays October 20 at The Cutting Room (44 E. 32nd St.). Doors open at 6pm; tickets ($22.68) are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhonyopera.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">rhonyopera.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s face it, only an opera could truly capture the fights, the passions and the over-the-top emotions of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":291024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,31028,405,403,58669,5226,5225,5228,5227,1148,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-291023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-categories-theater","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news-theater-performance","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-theater","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115347951634582571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}