If you think the Who had the last word in rock opera and that Queen was the end all in operatic pop, the East Village Opera Company ? a powerhouse five-piece band with a string quartet and two compelling vocalists ? will have you rethinking those precepts. The success of foreign-language-driven pop by Josh Groban and il Divo no doubt made it possible for this unique outfit to adapt some of these opera classics into a 21st century context. The Mozart-composed overture (from "Le Nozze di Figaro") has some of those Who-like synthesizer speckles over an insistent drumbeat before a blistering rock assault begins, which is sort of like paying homage to one of the great sources of the concept. Though the first-time listener who is not an opera fan may not know all the original titles (whose composers include Puccini, Verdi, and Bizet), it´s a great introduction to the art form because each track is performed at full length and in the original languages. The best of these are t