Boston Midsummer Opera presents Cosi Fan Tutte

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Hours:	Hours Vary see below
Ages:	Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	see below
Category:	Theater & Shows

BMO Artistic Director Drew Minter’s updated vision of the piece places the action in a country club on the Connecticut coast near New London. The two male protagonists are graduates of the sub base, and their girlfriends are wealthy coeds on summer vacation from their Seven Sisters schools.

Despina, the lady’s maid in Mozart’s original, serves as the tennis club’s snack bar attendant, and the men’s older friend Alfonso is a tennis player in the club. Since his production nine years ago, Minter has made updates with a new and improved translation, keeping DaPonte’s rhyme schemes for the most part, but translating them to current style American English.

The Boston Globe review of the 2000 production praised Drew Minter’s “brilliant translation” saying he was “more accurate than most translators; there are frequently appropriate touches of racy colloquialism… it was frankly a thrill to be in an audience that was responding to what was actually being sung, rather than to mistimed surtitles.”

HOURS

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Performances of Cosi Fan Tutte are Wednesday, August 5 and Friday, August 7 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, August 9 at 3 p.m.

COST

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Tickets, priced at $50.00 to $20.00 (plus a $5.00 handling fee per ticket order)

WEBSITE

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www.bostonmidsummeropera.org

LOCATION

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685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215 map
Phone: 617-227-0442

The Tsai Performance Center at Boston University, 685 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.