Tuesday, October 20· Time TBD
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte
Metropolitan Opera HouseManhattan
Experience Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love at the Metropolitan Opera. The third and final collaboration between Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, Così fan tutte explores the many faces of love through gorgeous melodies and hilarious hijinks. Phelim McDermott’s
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colorful staging transports the action from its original setting in Naples to a 1950s-inspired Coney Island amusement park. First premiered at Vienna’s Court Theater in 1790, the opera marks a significant chapter in Mozart’s extraordinary operatic legacy. Da Ponte, who also collaborated with Mozart on Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, later settled in New York, where he became the first Chair of Italian at Columbia College.