tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post114145306131126590..comments2024-03-25T16:51:04.370-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: Office Space: Così Fan TutteCharles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1141587328450894122006-03-05T14:35:00.000-05:002006-03-05T14:35:00.000-05:00Point taken about my choice of adverb. It's not cl...Point taken about my choice of adverb. It's not clear. As I also wrote in the article, I agree that the ending is ambiguous enough to support alternate readings. However, I do think that if we had to ascribe a "default reading" to the libretto, it would be that the women recant of their infidelity, when they accuse Don Alfonso of deceiving them ("Ecco là il barbaro / Che c'ingannò"). When AlfonsoCharles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1141582295484637662006-03-05T13:11:00.000-05:002006-03-05T13:11:00.000-05:00Da Ponte "clearly indicates in the libretto" that ...Da Ponte "clearly indicates in the libretto" that "the women ... go back to their respective original lovers"??? Where, precisely? A lot of stage directors would have been spared a lot of hard thought over a lot of years if that were the case....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1141570738600474062006-03-05T09:58:00.000-05:002006-03-05T09:58:00.000-05:00I think that the imagination of the average teenag...I think that the imagination of the average teenager would definitely be "aroused" by this production. That formerly always was and should be one of opera's primary draws as entertainment. I was thinking more of pre-middle school ages, where an explanation of the girlfriend swapping would be more problematic.<BR/><BR/>I agree with you about the quality of music in "Così," which especially Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1141541056134234742006-03-05T01:44:00.000-05:002006-03-05T01:44:00.000-05:00I tend to find sex in productions among the very b...I tend to find sex in productions among the very best means of keeping youngsters interested in just about anything... although not having children, I may not be allowed to chime in on that.<BR/><BR/>Smells a bit like Peter Sellars, from reading your review. And, although Wagner - among many others - almost gleefully pointed out that Cosi is the least popular of the three Da Ponte operas, there jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.com