Review: High Notes and Low Notes of Yale Opera’s Così Fan Tutte
Yale Opera’s Friday night performance of Così Fan Tutte was enjoyable overall, but the quality of this production and the opera itself is inconsistent. The high points of the evening combined Lorenzo Da Ponte’s cheeky libretto with hilarious stage direction and playful singing. The low points of the evening were painfully boring, usually due to endless melismas and repetitions in the score that should be scrapped. All too often I would just be getting into the opera when ever
