Word: cosiness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance of the music, however, was awful. By some boobery within the theatrical community, the G&S orchestra had to compete for players with Cosi Fan Tutte. It lost...
...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...
...Although Cosi's producers speak of the "professionals" in their cast, their oldest performer is under 30. The female leads are a Cambridge housewife who studies voice, and a recent Miss Alabama who forsook the South to attend Boston's New England Conservatory of Music...
...operatic experience under low-pressured conditions," he said. "But the trouble with this performance is that the demands of operatic singing are just too great for undergraduates. Most of the people have had very slight experience with this or any opera--Jack, who first had the idea of doing Cosi, hadn't conducted it before, and Phil hadn't directed anything before. Phil is a first-rate director, but he's young and inexperienced...
...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...