Next month, Theater for the New City will present Sima, a new opera by composer Leonard J. Lehrman, at its East Village location at 155 First Avenue, near 10th Street. According to the official synopsis, Sima tells the story of “the attempted adoption of a poor Jewish girl orphaned by a pogrom in 1905 Ukraine,” … ‘Sima’ is a new opera set after the pogroms that followed the 1905 Russian Revolution