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Even coffee shops are getting gussied up. By day a sandwich shop, the chain Cosi by night tries to transform itself into a sleek wine bar. The company lost $26 million last year on this Cinderella transformation, but Cosi's executive chairman, Bill Forrest, expects the new look to be profitable in 2004. Says he: "Our goal is to offer our customer the essence of urbaneness and taste...
...Cosi Fan Tutte
...Dunster House Opera Society presents their last two performances of Cosi Fan Tutte, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final comic opera. The story follows the travails of Ferrando and Guglielmo, two arrogant young officers who decide to test the loyalty of their beautiful fiancées after the sceptical Don Alfonso questions their sweethearts’ devotion. Hilarity ensues as the opera unravels to expose the deceitful nature of love. Tickets $9 regular, $10 at door, $7 students, $6 Dunster residents. Friday, Feb. 27 at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 at 8:30 p.m. Dunster House Dining Hall...
...instance, DHO struggles each year to mount an operatic production. This year, it will be a stunning production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte. Yet, as the DHO treasurer who must worry about the costs incurred in renting lights or costumes or printing up hundreds of posters, I always dream about a world in which undergraduate groups would not have to fight for singers, staff and technical directors. Wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have to spend half of our small budget transforming the dining hall into a temporary theater...
DHO’s entirely undergraduate cast creates some difficulties with already challenging repetoire. In particular, most women’s voices do not develop fully until they are well into their twenties, which makes Cosi Fan Tutte, with the recitatives and rich harmonies of late Mozart, complex and demanding for the young singers...