The Met stages a hilarious new production of Mozart's comedy - COSÌ FAN TUTTE
TRANSMITTED LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER
Live in HD Host: Joyce DiDonato
Approx. running time: 3 hours 20 minutes with one intermission between the two acts
Synopsis and program notes: www.sfmh.org
Click here to hear the overture
A winning cast comes together for Phelim McDermott’s clever vision of Mozart’s comedy about the sexes, set in a carnival-esque, funhouse environment inspired by 1950s Coney Island—complete with bearded ladies, fire eaters, and a Ferris wheel. Manipulating the action are the Don Alfonso of Christopher Maltman and the Despina of Tony Award–winner Kelli O’Hara, with Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Ben Bliss, and Adam Plachetka as the pairs of young lovers who test each other’s faithfulness. David Robertson conducts.
Whereas Don Giovanni ends in the triumph of good over evil, and Figaro with love conquering jealousy and everything else; in Così, the moral is that it’s pointless to get mad when women are unfaithful because “all women are like that” — così fan tutte. In his Program Notes for Memorial Hall Theater's showing of Cosi, Zeke Hecker sets the stage for our understanding Mozart's anti-romantic opera buffa.
However, Così fan tutte, Mozart’s third and last collaboration with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, contains some of Mozart’s most beautiful and sophisticated work. Yet it was performed just ten times during Mozart’s life and was not staged at the Met (or anywhere else in America) until 1922. The opera was originally set in 18th century Naples. This new production is great entertainment, and Mozart would be delighted with that.
Date and Time
Saturday Mar 31, 2018
12:55 PM - 4:15 PM EDT
Saturday, March 31, begins at 12:55 p.m.
Location
Memorial Hall Theater, 51 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls
Fees/Admission
TICKETS can be purchased in advance online and at Boswell's Books in Shelburne Falls. And always at the door Adult $22; Student $11