The Raumann Opera Atlas September 2026
24–28 September 2026Marty · Dad · Melanie · Peter

New York,
then Philadelphia.

Four nights. Two cities. A Saturday designed around the Met, as any civilised calendar ought to be.

Base camp / New York

A sensible
headquarters.

Three nights at the Courtyard Midtown East: two queens, a sofabed, and a front desk.

Thursday 24 – Sunday 27

Courtyard
Midtown East

Junior Queen Suite
Two queens + sofabed
866 Third Avenue, New York

Hotel details ↗   Map ↗

Thursday night: UA 274 arrives Newark around 8:00 PM. Uber in, check in, and bed. Melanie’s Las Vegas flight is still to be added.

The day-by-day

A working plan.

Times are local. Venue names and addresses link out when useful.

Thursday24September

Land, collect selves, settle in.

Newark → Midtown East
  • ~8:00 PM
    UA 274 arrives at NewarkUber to the hotel, roughly 40 minutes.
  • Evening
    Melanie arrives from Las Vegas details nextMeet at the hotel.
  • Nightcap
    P.J. Clarke’s ↗915 Third Ave · open since 1884 · a three-minute walk from the hotel · the actual final stop of the night.
Friday25September

A family ritual, then New York.

Upper West Side → Financial District
Saturday26September

The Met. The whole point.

Lincoln Center
  • 1:00 PM
    Macbeth matinee ↗Estimated 3 hr 30 min, including one interval · curtain down around 4:30 PM.
  • 5:00 PM
    The Smith, Lincoln Square ↗ · current reservation1900 Broadway, across from Lincoln Center · oysters, chilled shellfish, and a proper cocktail between the two operas. A sensible option, open to a better one.
  • 8:00 PM
    Così fan tutteEstimated 3 hr 35 min, including interval · expect to emerge around 11:35 PM.
Sunday27September

Southbound, by the civilised route.

Moynihan → Independence Mall
Along the way

Three stops
worth the detour.

Click through for menus, visitor details, or directions. One less tab to hunt down while out in the world.

fish first.Friday brunch

Barney
Greengrass

This year’s stop in the Marty & Dad deli tour. Smoked fish, eggs, and a room that has never needed reinventing.

Friday dinner / 8:00 PM

Delmonico’s

One of those New York dining rooms that has seen a great deal and refuses to make a fuss about it.

Sunday / 4:00 PM

Independence
Hall

The room where a nation began. Arrive at screening by 3:30 PM; history runs on a timetable.

National Park Service photo.

The Saturday programme

Verdi, then Mozart.

The murderous Scot in the afternoon; Mozart’s emotionally elaborate wager after dinner. They make quite a pair.

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Afternoon

Macbeth

Verdi turns ambition, guilt, and a troublesome prophecy into a very fine afternoon.

Evening

Così fan tutte

Mozart’s proof that people should never be put through loyalty experiments.

The longer story35 opera evenings with Dad, across seventeen cities since 2008.
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