Word: despina
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Cosi Fan Tutte is as much about the obsessions of men as the fickleness of women: inconstancy, the chambermaid Despina claims, is universal...
Rentschler said that Assistant Professor J.D. Connor ’92 will teach “Histories of Cinema I,” and Assistant Professor Despina Kakoudaki will teach “Histories of Cinema...
Garber says that before this year, VES committed itself with Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby to adding two positions in film studies. Connor, as a joint hire, counted as one-half of a position; another joint hire in film studies this term—Assistant Professor Despina Kakoudaki, appointed to VES and the comparative literature department, who is on leave until next fall—was a second half-position...
...Purchase, N.Y., where Sellars' versions of the three operas that Mozart wrote with Lorenzo da Ponte are all being restaged. The Marriage of Figaro (1786) is set in Manhattan's Trump Tower, Don Giovanni (1787) in Spanish Harlem and Cosi fan tutte (1790) in a sleazy diner called Despina's. Nor does the Sellars game end ) there. At 31, the aging enfant terrible is talking of deconstructing Idomeneo in Brussels and The Magic Flute at Glyndebourne...
Smaller companies, such as the Santa Fe Opera and Opera Theater of St. Louis, offer off-season stimulation, and Director Peter Sellars has made a reputation scandalizing the bourgeoisie, for example, setting Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in Despina's Coffee Shop. Still, dullness prevails in the largest companies, where opera is viewed as a closed, dead art; innovation is largely a guerrilla endeavor carried on by partisans hiding out in the hills...