OPERA
WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 15 & 17
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY

Mozart: Così fan Tutte
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, The Juilliard School
155 West 65th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$40; $20 students
https://www.juilliard.edu/event/140021/juilliard-opera-presents-mozarts-cosi-fan-tutte
https://www.juilliard.edu/event/140026/juilliard-opera-presents-mozarts-cosi-fan-tutte
https://www.juilliard.edu/event/140036/juilliard-opera-presents-mozarts-cosi-fan-tutte

Juilliard Opera continues to be one of the best deals in town: generally excellent performances by stars of the future. Now they're doing Così, a hard opera to pull off: the music can drag if the conductor doesn't keep it moving; and the plot requires a deft directorial hand if it isn't to seem repellent. This production is set in contemporary America, during the last year of high school; sexual/emotional immaturity makes the plot make sense (come to think of it, LoftOpera did something vaguely similar shortly before its untimely demise). I can guarantee you that this will be better than the Met's current brain-dead production, which attempts to elide the problems posed by the libretto by pretending its just a light comedy. Some light comedy.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Leopard at des Artistes: not only is the food good, not only is the room spectacular — but it'll still be open after the show.