Love the idea of a night at the opera but can’t find your fancy gloves and opera glasses, 150 extra dollars, or stuffy attitude anywhere? No worries — OperaHub, please enter stage right. Since 2007, this outside-the-box troupe has been staging creative productions of classic and contemporary operas, and this week, the company is wrapping its 2009 “Ambition” season with an eccentric and absolutely free performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s 1642 masterpiece L’Incoronazione di Poppea (or, The Coronation of Poppea, for those of you who’ve forgotten that long-ago semester of Italian). In keeping with their offbeat style, OperaHub’s enactment of this story of sex, power, and intrigue has been orchestrated to include electronic sound and choreographed to incorporate modern dance. And don't fret if you non capisce their Italiano: the production will be sung in Italian with projected English supertitles. Performances take place tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre (820 Mass Ave, Cambridge, 617.661.9622). Reserve your free tickets by emailing your name, phone number, preferred performance date, and number of seats requested to tickets@operhub.org. And check out this Boston Phoenix article by Sara Faith Alterman, STUFF's resident boozehound, to find out more about the city's unconventional opera scene.
