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...Opera Company: For its final presentation of a handsome season, NBC's young and sprightly opera company presented a sparkling, two-hour show of Mozart's artful Cosi Fan Tutte (Women Are Like That). The cynical, silly, and charming tale-two gentlemen of Naples undertake to disprove the theory that all women are faithless by pretending to go off to the wars and returning in disguise as two gentlemen from Albania lately landed from a balloon, lay siege to each other's sweethearts, and, to their own discomfiture, succeed-has seldom been more merrily staged. Under...
...their hand at a little Debussy, Mozart and Beethoven. When Allers took over the baton in Fair Lady, some of the singers asked him to continue his out-of-hours musicmaking. Result: the Allers opera workshop, which in short order sang, without sets or costumes, Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Verdi's Masked Ball and, as a Christmas special, Handel's Messiah. (Audiences usually consist of a dozen or so friends and relatives...
...music. Others feel that the text is also worth understanding, since after all, the composer did expect the audience to know what is happening. As an experiment with opera in English, the New England Opera Company is currently offering on alternate nights this week two Mozart operas, Cosi Fan Tutti and Don Giovanni...
...Cosi is particularly suited to translation because of its talkiness. And while the text used by director Boris Goldovsky has its disappointing moments, these are more than compensated for by the immediacy of the humor and understanding of the 18th century intention. The story centers around two army officers Guglielmo and Gernando and their philosopher-friend Don Alfonso. The Don, challenging the fidelity of the soldiers' betrothed, proves to them the fundamental frailty of human nature...
...English a few of the usually "dramatic" Italian phrases sound a bit peculiar. For example, the young maid has finished a long sorrowful song about her mistreatment by the bawdy Don, and her gallant suitor warbles "Ohhh, a piteee." These are the exceptions however and this fine presentation, like Cosi, is highly enjoyable...