Word: dorabella
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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...
...heavy-set roles, traditionally doled out to mezzos, e.g., Brangaene and other secondary parts in Wagner operas, Amneris in Aïda. Last season, as the Met's English-language repertory grew, she turned comedienne, won all-out approval for her beautiful-but-dumb Dorabella in Cosï Fan Tutte. This year, she went still further afield, took on the bearded lady in Stravinsky's Rake's Progress, and managed to give the grotesque part a feeling of femininity and more than its measure...