14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Così fan tutte' and ‘The Threepenny Opera' Reviews: Directors Disrupt the Classics
Detroit
Mozart's 'Così fan tutte' is always a challenge: How does a director interpret its superficially misogynistic story—on a bet, two unsuspecting women are manipulated into trading lovers, the assumption being that women are inherently fickle—in a way that's palatable to a contemporary audience? For his new production at the Detroit Opera, Yuval Sharon, the company's innovative artistic director, has riffed on the opera's subtitle, 'The School for Lovers.' Don Alfonso (Edward Parks) is a tech CEO, and the opera is staged as a product launch for his company's newest AI models of perfect female lovers who are undergoing the fidelity test in real time.
