Conductor: Henrik Nánási
Director: Michael Cavanagh
Ferrando: Ben Bliss*
Guglielmo: John Brancy
Don Alfonso: Ferruccio Furlanetto
Fiordiligi: Nicole Cabell
Dorabella: Irene Roberts
Despina: Nicole Heaston
The San Francisco Opera is currently showing Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte. Starting this season if you do not want to go into a crowded opera house, you can for a fee watch the opera at home on live stream. I would like to suggest that it should be possible to make this available to play later for the same fee. This would allow friends in Europe to watch it. It's the middle of the night there.
This production began in 2019 with Figaro as part of a Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy and will continue to its conclusion later this season in Don Giovanni. All three operas are set in the same basic house structure. In this opera the house is now a country club with sports, dining, and other facilities. I felt that the concept worked very well. In the picture above the guys are in the men's locker room. I liked the look of it and felt that it served very well to clarify the story. The singers were expected to be rather more athletic than is generally a good idea.
My only problem with it was with the music. The music sounded very much like a performance of a Mozart symphony--intense and dramatic. It wasn't exactly bad, but didn't make me feel like I was seeing a comedy. My overall take is positive. This opera is often hated, and I overcame my tendency in this direction. It was good to see Ferruccio Furlanetto.
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