It was a bleak, snowdrift evening. I was sloshing through dark Battery Park, on the tip of Manhattan, to the Museum of Jewish Heritage. A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, it is hosting a new opera, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, by American art song composer Ian Ricky Gordon, courtesy of New York City Opera (NYCO) and National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.
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