Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Erica Petrocelli, right, and Rihab Chaieb in the Los Angeles Opera production of Mozart's "Così fan Tutte" at the Dorothy Chandler ...

KANSAS CITY, MO — ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ is the story of two friends who make a not-so-friendly wager. The comical opera’s outcome will either defend the virtue of the two sisters they love, or expose a ...

There’s a certain neat irony at the heart of this. A female director, returning to this opera for a second season (and for ...

The German director is known for an approach which goes from the casually inventive to the cerebral and surreal, casting a modern eye on the psychodrama and social issues beneath the surface of ...

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.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Comic and opera are not words often used in the same sentence. But when they are found together — it usually means a good time. This is certainly the case with Opera Saratoga’s ...

The Met's new production of Così fan tutte stages the comic opera at a Coney Island-style amusement park circa the 1950s. For those who are new to this work, the plot is delightful. Sisters Fiordiligi ...

Absurdly improbable, shockingly cynical, Mozart’s “Così fan Tutte” is populated by downright stupid and manipulative characters. It is also flooded with Mozartian beauty that offers the depth of ...

Benvenuti a Napoli cries the huge corny poster of the blue bay and ominous Vesuvius that looms over Neil Irish’s sets for Così fan tutte. However, we’re no longer in the Enlightenment city of cynical ...