Pastiche and fun

We went to an Episcopal church in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, last night to enjoy a genuine pastiche--not a pasta but a performance of an "opera" composed of bits and pieces of songs composed for other occasions, called Amor & Psyche and performed by a group calling themselves opera feroce.  Sung by Beth Anne Hatton (Psyche), Hayden DeWitt (Amor) and Alan Dornak (rather a lot of people).  That is a mezzo, a soprano and a countertenor. Plus a trio playing period instruments with brio.  They were lovely and brilliant and great fun performing seventeenth and eighteenth century music that is rarely heard.  AND there are two more performances Sunday, Nov. 14 at Church of the Good Shepherd on Roosevelt Island (2:30 p.m.) and Thursday, Dec. 16 at St. Stephen and St. Martin's Church in Brooklyn (7:30).