Lost Draft

Vincent Youmans wrote the song “Tea for Two” 100 years ago, with lyrics by Irving Caesar. But two centuries earlier, Johann Sebastian Bach composed “Coffee Cantata,” a lighthearted operatic pastiche about a caffeine-crazed young woman and her disapproving father set in a Leipzig cafe. A revival of Bach’s work will be performed next month at Lost Draft Coffee Shop, a creative workshop and cafe in SoHo, by On Site Opera, a nomadic New York group. There will be an English libretto and new orchestration by Geoffrey McDonald, the music director of the company.