Bryant Park Picnic Performances: NYC Opera — A Celebration of Ella Fitzgerald
Fri 7 Aug, 19:00 · Bryant Park Lawn, Midtown Manhattan · New York
Details & booking — Bryant Park Corporation
via Bryant Park Corporation · Checked 5 Aug 2026
About this event
New York City Opera brings its voices to the Bryant Park lawn for an evening of Ella Fitzgerald: the Songbook years, the scat, the standards, reframed by opera-trained singers. Skyscrapers on all four sides, blankets on the grass, and complimentary blankets and chairs handed out on a first-come basis.
Why we picked it
City Opera singing Ella in the middle of Midtown, free and with no queue to enter.
Free entry
Free entry. Bryant Park states no registration is required and there are no lines to enter.
Registration
None
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