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COSI FAN TUTTE 
Coney Island and  the Met Opera team up for 
THE MET-LIVE-in-HD 

“If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.”

 That  last line from 1970’s folk rock song pretty much sums up the story line of Cosi Fan Tutte,  Mozart’s great comic opera first performed in 1790.

This latest lavish Met’s production is for modern eyes,  would likely have been  a hit in the 18th century too.  

Besides being great music, it’s great fun.

A dozen Coney Island performers —including a snake charmer, a fire eater, a brother and sister sword swallowing team, a strongman, contortionists, a bearded lady and a pair of little people—join Broadway star and Tony-winner  Kelli O’Hara (as the indispensable Despina) on the Met’s stage. 

 Five of the Met’s top voices— Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Ben Bliss, and Adam Plachetka— are  the pairs of young lovers who are matched and then mismatched in a test of  faithfulness.  Christopher Maltman is Alfonso, their friend who makes the bet that sets the ball rolling. 

This dazzling fantasy production by  Phelim McDermott with David Robertson conducting is really two shows in one.   Grand operatic voices and amazing circus body performances add up to  great entertainment for everyone! 

MORE TO COME
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