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Opera spotlight: 'Cosi fan tutte' by Minnesota Opera
For the Minnesota Star Tribune
September 18, 2011 at 12:21AM
Mozart's "Così fan tutte" ("All Women Are Like That") may not be the best starter opera, or the best curtain-raiser for the Minnesota Opera's new season. Its highly artificial plot, full of implausible disguises, is open to charges of misogyny; even 21st-century sensibilities can be rattled by its weave of frivolity and cynicism. But Mozart's music sweeps all before it -- or tries to. Peter Rothstein, best known as artistic director of Theater Latté Da, directs his first mainstage opera; Christopher Franklin conducts.
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