I attended San Diego Opera’s production of Cosi fan Tutte on Saturday, February 12. I was somewhat dismayed at what I saw. The singers were fine. The production was yet another ill-conceived ...

The set-up: If you want to know all about sex, why read Masters and Johnson when you can go to the opera and hear Mozart. What better primer than Così fan tutte (1790), the third collaboration between ...

Viennese court composer Antonio Salieri was never Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s scheming nemesis (sorry, Peter Shaffer with your delightfully wicked Amadeus) so much as he was Mozart’s unwitting irritant.

Mozart finally did make his escape from Salzburg, and lit out for the bright lights of Vienna. Viennese gossip provided the fodder for his opera Cosi Fan Tutte, in which a couple of men set out to ...

Stuart’s layered voice was always able to find new places to go, creating gleeful anticipation and ensuring the worldly wise, semi-reluctant, sighing-then-screaming character she created could sew up ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Of numerous operaphiles I have encountered, there is a fair amount of partisanship ...