Opera Comique

Name: Opera Comique
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 dash Orange Bitters; 30 ml Aquavit; 1 twst Orange Peel; 8 ml Green Chartreuse; 30 ml Sweet Vermouth; 23 ml Cynar

Stir Aquavit, Sweet Vermouth, Cynar, Green Chartreuse with ice. Strain into a coupe.

Similar names: Opera, Opera Cocktail, Threepenny Opera

Frederic Yarm of Boston developed the Opera Comique in 2024 during Negroni Week, as a drink that departs from the classic Negroni. It combines the Cynar and Chartreuse pairing from the Drink of Laughter & Forgetting with the structure of the Tailspin, and uses aquavit as in the Trident rather than gin, which would have come too close to the creator's 2018 Continuum. The name comes from Happy Jack Harrington's rowdy concert saloon, also known as Murderer's Corner, described in Herbert Asbury's The Barbary Coast.

Method

Stirred

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Citrus

Dry

Herbal