Opera spotlight: 'Cosi fan tutte' by Minnesota Opera

By LARRY FUCHSBERG

For the Minnesota Star Tribune
September 18, 2011 at 12:21AM
John Tessier (Ferrando), Jennifer Holloway (Dorabella), Jacquelyn Wagner (Fiordiligi) and Matthew Worth (Guglielmo) in "Così fan tutte" by the Minnesota Opera.
John Tessier (Ferrando), Jennifer Holloway (Dorabella), Jacquelyn Wagner (Fiordiligi) and Matthew Worth (Guglielmo) in "Così fan tutte" by the Minnesota Opera. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Opening Saturday 9/24

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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LARRY FUCHSBERG