At 7 30 p.m., Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th Street, Manhattan, operamission.org; $30 to $60. (Zachary Woolfe) ★ 'The Turn of the Screw' (Saturday) Opera Moderne made an auspicious debut last year and now mounts Britten's eminently creepy chamber work.
There is now an auspicious mirror in the raised room, some red accents and a few life-force trinkets here and there to keep the whole scene in alignment.
Now housed in a Frank Gehry designed structure, the Cinematheque has come a long way from its humble beginnings and is now as auspicious a part of the French cultural landscape as say the Louvre, the Grand Palais or the Paris Opera.
But the voice doesn't sound auspicious: his thin - and now rather ordinary - sound seems blown off stage by Audun Iversen's booming Marcello.
"We are experiencing an auspicious moment in Brazil right now," Mr. da Silva, 61, said in his first extended discussion with an American journalist since 2004.
"This is going to be much more difficult in 2014, so now seems an auspicious time to act," he said, referring to the mid-term elections.
Now Alex Iwobi made an auspicious first league start, garnished with a goal.
But she was adaptable with her gift, then as now, and there are auspicious moments scattered throughout this set.
Whatever way you want to call it, now is not an auspicious point to be a badger.
