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Cosi Fan Tutte, a title truly impossible to translate, roughly means "Women Will Do It All the Time." And in this bubbling tale of feminine frailty, everything happens in pairs. There are two sisters, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, and their lovers, Guglielmo and Ferrando, respectively. Things get rolling when Don Alfonso, an old conniver, bets Guglielmo and Ferrando that their loves would betray them, given the chance...
Greg, having missed his cue, ran back on stage to sing a belated "What makes you think that women are capable of cuckolding" at Don Alfonso. "See?" Holly Worthen, a chorus member, exclaimed. "This is eight times as funny as either Gilbert or Sullivan! The music is better and the plot's ridiculous, but it's a self-conscious kind of ridiculous. People are always going off on the side of the stage and saying, 'Isn't this absurd...
...This opera is made for the audience," Tom Webber, a sophomore who plays Don Alfonso, Mozart's embodiment of deception, broke in. "If they're alert, they'll get it." Tom gets lots of chances to play directly to his audience while being deceptive, coming to the front of the stage and telling them how deceptive he is. "As anyone can see, I'm not bashful," he said. "I enjoy singing and acting. This opera is close to drama. The recitatives have been cut and dialogue substituted so that we don't have to sing on sixteenth-notes. Doing...
Soon the timpani appeared for the first time. The kitchen staff walked into the dining room with dinner. Phil opened the window to let out the smell of chow mein and knocked Don Alfonso's sword off the window. One of the singers started and flubbed her line. Archie Epps hissed slightly...
...Leverett House, rather then the Leverett House Opera Society, plans to do more opera," Archie continued. "Master Gill suggests we try a series of Mozarts. Gill has sung professionally, of course; I think he's sung Don Alfonso. He had been thinking of doing Cosi when Jack mentioned...