Word: cosiness
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...most significant artistic achievement was the opera itself, which Mr. Goldovsky and a similar cast lied presented for the first time in America at Tanglewood last summer. Like several other Mozart operas, notably "Cosi Fan Tutte," "Idomeneo" is a diamond lying neglected amidst the track of the nineteenth century. The orchestral passages are exceptional even for Mozart, and the choral writing is superior to that in his more famous operas. As presented in Mr. Goldovsky's adaptation, the first act was highly conventionalized and contained too much plot exposition in the form of recitative--arias were scarce, in fact...
...this work of Mozart's is peculiarly suited both musically and theatrically to a small-scale, intimate production. Whether Goldovsky will do so well with Puccini and Menotti, his second bill, is another question; he might do well to consider something as unusual, worth-while, and theatrically entertaining as "Cosi Fan Tutte," for his as yet unrevealed third choice...
Opera, kept woman of the arts, got out and hustled last week. In a Manhattan theater, the endless tunes of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte ("Thus do all women"-or more freely translated, The Way of All Flesh) prattled along at prices of $1.10 to $3.30. Its young, energetic performers were a new opera company, named the New Opera Company. Their impresario was a handsome socialite, Helen Huntington Astor Hull, ex-wife of Vincent Astor, now wife of Real-Estate Broker Lytle Hull-one of those great & good women who support the Metropolitan Opera in the style to which...
...Cosi fan tutte's plot is an absurd and tedious business about how two Italians prove their sweethearts faithless by disguising themselves as Albanians, and winning the girls handily. The New Opera acted as if its efforts with this situation were funny, and as if 18th-Century gags in Italian were comprehensible to Broadway. But the singers, only one of whom was over 40, voiced their airs and ensembles with Mozartean freshness and purity. Only one had big-time stage experience-Ina Souez, who was born Ina Rains in Denver, and had sung in Cosi jan tutte in Glyndebourne...
...With Cosi fan tutte ("They all do it") as its opener, the Guild showed that, though it could not do much for the vocal side of opera, it could, theatrically, provide as agreeable a romp as anything that had been sung on a Manhattan stage in years. Viennese Theo Otto's frivolous set and gay 18th-Century costumes-worn by opera singers who for once looked perfectly at home in them-made a completely plausible background for Mozart's tale of deception which proves that all women are fickle...