English Touring Opera Announces Revised Autumn Season

The English Touring Opera has announced a revised autumn season. In a press release, the company said, “we are working to produce a live season of lyric theatre this Autumn, touring in October and November. This program is being designed to observe social distancing guidelines in the interest of the safety of our artists and audience. For this reason, we {…}

Mar 4, 2020

English Touring Opera 2020 Review: Così fan tutte

(Image Source: Official website) The great critic Edward Said saw Mozart and Da Ponte’s “Così fan tutte” as a work of irreconcilable contradictions: astonishingly tender in its explorations of longing, fear, and regret, yet also strangely cold and unredeemed; a world of libertinage and manipulation that burns forward without any clear moral purpose. The frivolity of its scenario is powerfully {…}